Glossary of the Marvellous

Let us not mince words: the marvelous is always beautiful, anything marvelous is beautiful, in fact only the marvelous is beautiful.

André Breton, Manifesto of Surrealism (1924)

Bureau of Surrealist Research
15 rue de Grenelle, Paris
October 1924 – April 1925

works in progress, listed by André Masson and Max Morise in the Cahier de Permanence, 20.03.1925:

list of the restrictive tendencies of American thought

glossary of the marvellous

notes by everyone about personal anomalies

collection of mysterious or unexplainable facts found in books and newspapers

repertory of surrealist and revolutionary ideas

Blogs

Links

Bibliothèque Nationale de France, online exhibitions.

David Attenborough, Life in Cold Blood (BBC series). Picture: Armadillo lizard, South Africa.

The new seven wonders of the world. Picture: Machu Picchu, Peru.

The Species of Origin (Charles Darwin and contemporary art and culture). Picture: Ellen Gallagher, Watery Ecstatic, 2004.

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Elisa Breton, Portrait of André Breton with toad in St.-Cirq-Lapopie, undated (c. 1955), detail.

From Poisonous Hoppers to Screaming Frogs, BBC News Science/Nature, 04.09.2008 (Costa Rican Amphibian Research Center).

Mapping the Marvellous