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Manifesto for an Independent Revolutionary Art

The International Federation of Independent Revolutionary Art (FIARI) was a short-lived organization established in 1938 until 1939 on the initiative of Andre Breton and Diego Rivera following the publication in Partisan Review of their Manifesto for an Independent Revolutionary Art, which was signed by both individuals, based on their political and cultural rejection of the Communist International and what they viewed as growing trends toward state and bureaucratic control over art and literature across the world. It was co-authored by Leon Trotsky.

History

In April 1938, André Breton travelled to Mexico on a grant from France's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. There, he became acquainted with Leon Trotsky and co-authored the Manifesto with him. The published Manifesto was signed by Breton and Rivera.

The document called for the establishment of an International Federation of Independent Revolutionary Art. On Breton's return to France, he established the Federation, setting up branches in Paris, London and New York, as well as Mexico. Breton successfully solicited supported for the project from the likes of Benjamin Péret, Yves Tanguy, André Masson, Victor Serge, Marcel Martinet, Ignazio Silone, Herbert Read (who, in turn, won the support of George Orwell) and others.

However, the Federation was beset with problems with the European branches receiving a lack of public interest due to the preoccupation with the threat of war. Only two editions of La Clé, the monthly bulletin of the Federation's French section, were published before publication was ceased in February 1939 amid a deepening political crisis across Europe. In his last letter to Trotsky in June 1939, Breton wrote: "Perhaps I am not very talented as an organizer, but at the same time it seems to me that I have run up against enormous obstacles."

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References

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  2. Deutscher, Isaac. (1963). "The Prophet Outcast: Trotsky 1929-1940".
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  5. [https://books.google.com/books?id=bQkOVGW8FFEC&dq=%22Manifesto+for+an+Independent+Revolutionary+Art%22&pg=RA1-PA204 Google Books result indicating the document's origin]
  6. Adamson, Walter L.. (2007). "Embattled Avant-Gardes: Modernism's Resistance to Commodity Culture in Europe". University of California Press.
  7. (16 June 1997). "André Breton and problems of twentieth-century culture".
  8. (6 May 2010). "Stalin's Nemesis: The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky". Faber & Faber.
  9. (2009). "Aesthetics and Anthropology: Performing Life - Performed Lives". LIT Verlag Münster.
  10. Polizzotti, Mark. (1995). "Revolution of the Mind: The Life of André Breton". Farrar, Straus Giroux.
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