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Robert Desnos
Robert Desnos was a French poet who played a key role in the Surrealist movement.
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culture · French writer · poet · writer · screenwriter · journalist · French resistance fighter · painter · draftsperson · also Robert Desnos, Robert Pierre Desnos, Desnos
Born 4 July 1900 · Died 8 June 1945 · Q170095
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2026· 2 entries
MutualArt.com: Robert Desnos
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2017· 1 entry
Jazz: Patrick Battstone & Antonella Chionna: The Voice of Robert Desnos
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2006· 1 entry
The book was displayed in "Joan Miró, Illustrated Books" at the Vero Beach Museum of Art
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1974· 1 entry
At the urging of Robert Desnos' widow, Joan Miró published an "illustrated book" with text from Robert Desnos titled Les pénalités de l'enfer ou les nouvelles Hébrides (The Penalties of Hell or The New Hebrides), Maeght
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1946· 1 entry
Won Resistance Medal (1946).
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1945· 1 entry
Died 1945-06-08.
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1938· 1 entry
Can be heard on the audiobook CD Surrealism Reviewed, issued in 2002
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1926· 1 entry
Composed The Night of Loveless Nights, a lyric poem dealing with solitude curiously written in classic quatrains, which makes it more like Baudelaire than Breton
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1925· 1 entry
And before long, they made plans to collaborate on a livre d'artist
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1922· 2 entries
Published his first book, a collection of surrealistic aphorisms, with the title Rrose Sélavy (the name adopted as an "alternative persona" by the avant-garde French artist Marcel Duchamp; a pun on "Eros, c'est la vie
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But remained unpublished until this posthumous collaboration
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1920· 1 entry
Did his military service which led him to Chaumont and then Morocco
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1919· 1 entry
Met the poet Benjamin Péret, who introduced him to the Paris Dada group and André Breton, with whom he soon became friends
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1917· 1 entry
In La Tribune des Jeunes (Platform for Youth) and in 1919 in the avant-garde review Le Trait d'union (Hyphen), and also the same year in the Dadaist magazine Littérature
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1900· 1 entry
Born 1900-07-04.
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