Editing Surrealism (section)

===Internal politics===
In 1929 the satellite group associated with the journal ''Le Grand Jeu'', including [[Roger Gilbert-Lecomte]], [[Maurice Henry]] and the Czech painter [[Josef Sima]], was ostracized. Also in February, Breton asked Surrealists to assess their "degree of moral competence", and theoretical refinements included in the second ''[[Surrealist Manifesto|manifeste du surréalisme]]'' excluded anyone reluctant to commit to collective action, a list which included Leiris, Limbour, Morise, Baron, Queneau, Prévert, Desnos, Masson and Boiffard. Excluded members launched a counterattack, sharply criticizing Breton in the pamphlet ''[[Un Cadavre]]'', which featured a picture of Breton wearing a [[crown of thorns]]. The pamphlet drew upon an earlier act of subversion by likening Breton to [[Anatole France]], whose unquestioned value Breton had challenged in 1924.

The disunion of 1929–30 and the effects of ''Un Cadavre'' had very little negative impact upon Surrealism as Breton saw it, since core figures such as Aragon, Crevel, Dalí and Buñuel remained true to the idea of group action, at least for the time being. The success (or the controversy) of Dalí and Buñuel's film ''[[L'Age d'Or]]'' in December 1930 had a regenerative effect, drawing a number of new recruits, and encouraging countless new artistic works the following year and throughout the 1930s.

Disgruntled surrealists moved to the periodical ''[[Documents (magazine)|Documents]]'', edited by [[Georges Bataille]], whose anti-idealist materialism formed a hybrid Surrealism intending to expose the base instincts of humans.<ref name="grove"/><ref name="pompidou">[http://www.cnac-gp.fr/education/ressources/ENS-Surrealistart-EN/ENS-Surrealistart-EN.htm Surrealist Art] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120918070327/http://www.cnac-gp.fr/education/ressources/ENS-Surrealistart-EN/ENS-Surrealistart-EN.htm |date=2012-09-18 }} from [[Centre Pompidou]]. Retrieved March 20, 2007.</ref> To the dismay of many, ''Documents'' fizzled out in 1931, just as Surrealism seemed to be gathering more steam.

There were a number of reconciliations after this period of disunion, such as between Breton and Bataille, while Aragon left the group after committing himself to the [[French Communist Party]] in 1932. More members were ousted over the years for a variety of infractions, both political and personal, while others left in pursuit of their own style.

By the end of World War II, the surrealist group led by André Breton decided to explicitly embrace anarchism. In 1952 Breton wrote "It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognised itself."<ref name="anarchosurrealism">{{cite web|url=http://libcom.org/history/1919-1950-the-politics-of-surrealism |title=1919–1950: The politics of Surrealism by Nick Heath |publisher=Libcom.org |access-date=2009-12-26}}</ref> Breton was consistent in his support for the [[Fédération Anarchiste|francophone Anarchist Federation]] and he continued to offer his solidarity after the [[Platformism|Platformists]] supporting Fontenis transformed the FA into the Fédération Communiste Libertaire. He was one of the few intellectuals who continued to offer his support to the FCL during the Algerian war when the FCL suffered severe repression and was forced underground. He sheltered Fontenis whilst he was in hiding. He refused to take sides on the splits in the French anarchist movement and both he and Peret expressed solidarity as well with the new [[Fédération anarchiste]] set up by the synthesist anarchists and worked in the Antifascist Committees of the 60s alongside the FA.<ref name="anarchosurrealism"/>