True art, which is not content to play variations on ready-made models but rather insists on expressing the inner needs of man and of mankind in its time – true art is unable not to be revolutionary, not to aspire to a complete and radical reconstruction of society.
(Manifesto for an Independent Revolutionary Art, Breton and Rivera, 1938)
In the Manifesto for an Independent Revolutionary Art, André Breton and Diego Rivera, under the effects of German fascism and Russian Stalinism in society, argued that art can only have an effect in society and be revolutionary if it becomes independent of any social constructs (Breton1 and Rivera, 1938). Almost six decades later, in the rise of what ...
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