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This author’s history of feuds with fellow authors backfired when he slapped a Soviet journalist, resulting in a blanket expulsion of all members of his movement from a Communist congress. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this author, who also expelled members of his movement for reasons such as publishing or working on ballet. This author defined the central idea of one work as “pure psychic automatism.”
ANSWER: André Breton
[10e] André Breton wrote a series of manifestos for this movement, whose name was coined by Guillaume Apollinaire. That manifesto inspired artists such as Salvador Dalí, who was later expelled from this movement.
ANSWER: surrealism [or Surrealist Manifesto]
[10h] Breton expelled this Surrealist author on the grounds that theater was anti-revolutionary. An essay by this author discusses reviving the “total spectacle” and imagines the hypothetical play The Conquest of Mexico.
ANSWER: Antonin Artaud [or Antoine-Marie-Joseph Artaud]
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