Coffee with a Curator: André Breton

Coffee with a Curator: Alex Lenoble
André Breton
October 2, 2024
Join us for this installment of our Coffee with a Curator series, where Museum Staff or invited guests speak on a range of Dalí-inspired topics.
This lecture will uncover the transformative power of the Surrealist Manifesto and its enduring legacy, highlighting how it challenged the boundaries of reason and redefined the relationship between art, politics and imagination.
In 1924, André Breton ignited an aesthetic revolution with the publication of the Surrealist Manifesto, a call to explore the depths of the unconscious and liberate its creative potential. As we commemorate the 100th anniversary of the publication of this ground-breaking document, we will take a closer look at what this Manifesto was about and the history of the Surrealist movement and its legacy. We will also celebrate a century of the Manifesto and its profound influence on art, literature and culture.
Alex Lenoble
Alex Lenoble is Assistant Professor of French in the department of World Languages at the University of South Florida (USF), which he joined in 2019 after completing his Ph.D. at Cornell University. At USF, he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Francophone literature and culture, French cinema, and literary theory. His research interests include Francophone and Caribbean literature from the 20th to the 21st century, poetry and politics, and trauma theory.