Paris, 1924: André Breton started "La Révolution surréaliste", a left oriented magazine, with provocative texts about authority, religion, war, sexuality, violence, nationalism etc. There were, of course, a lot of avant-garde poetry and artworks. Until December 1929, it will be published 12 issues.
Fifteen years ago I saw in a book the title page of "La Révolution surréaliste" with the quotation from Friedrich Engels: "Ce qui manque à tous ces messieurs, c’est la dialectique." (What these gentlemen all lack is dialectic). It was a sentence from the letter from Engels to Konrad Schmidt, in 1890, which inspired me to make a drawing about Breton, his magazine and Engels' words. The black triangle on my drawing is a remake of Eisenstein’s diagram of dialectic montage.