Jacques Baron (1905–1986) was a French surrealist poet whose first collection of poems was published in ''Aventure'' in 1921. Although he was initially involved with the

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movement, he became a founding member of the

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movement following his meeting with

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in 1921, and contributed to ''

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''. In 1927, like many of his contemporaries, Baron joined the Cercle Communiste Démocratique. Although fascinated by dream-like states of the nomadic unconscious and other imaginary worlds of the "marvelous", a dispute with Breton in 1929 got him expelled from the movement, and prompted him to contribute to ''

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'', an anti-Breton pamphlet. After the break with Surrealism, Baron became associated with

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and ''

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'',Spiteri 27. in which he published a short essay on "Crustaceans for the Critical Dictionary" (1929, issue 6), an article on the sculptor Jacques Lipchitz (1930, issue 1), and a poem dedicated to Picasso, "Flames" (1930, issue 3). He later collaborated on a number of reviews such as ''Le Voyage en Grèce'', ''La Critique Sociale'' and ''

Minotaure ''Minotaure'' was a Surrealist-oriented magazine founded by Albert Skira and E. Tériade in Paris and published between 1933 and 1939. ''Minotaure'' published on the plastic arts, poetry, and literature, avant garde, as well as articles on esot ...

''. Baron also wrote a novel, ''Charbon de mer'' (1935), a mémoire, ''L’An 1 du Surréalisme'' (1969), and a collection of poems, ''L’Allure poétique'' (1973).

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Bibliography

*Brandon, Ruth. ''Surreal Lives: The Surrealists, 1917-1945''. London: Macmillan, 1999. *Short, Robert. "The Politics of Surrealism, 1920-1936." ''Journal of Contemporary History'' 1 (1966). *Spiteri, Raymond. "Envisioning Surrealism in Histoire De L'OEil and la Femme 100 Tetes." ''Art Journal'' 63 (2004). Writers from Paris 1905 births 1986 deaths French surrealist writers French male poets Prix des Deux Magots winners Prix Guillaume Apollinaire winners 20th-century French male writers {{France-poet-stub