''Dialectique de la dialectique'' is a 1945 text publication by

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surrealist Surrealism is a cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists depicted unnerving, illogical scenes and developed techniques to allow the unconscious mind to express itself. Its aim was, according to ...

Gherasim Luca Gherasim Luca (; 23 July 1913 – 9 February 1994) was a Romanian surrealist theorist and poet. Born Salman Locker in Romania and also known as Costea Sar, and Petre Malcoci, he became an apatrid after leaving Romania in 1952. Biography ...

and

Dolfi Trost Dolfi or Dolphi Trost (1916 in Brăila – 1966 in Chicago, Illinois) was a Romanian surrealist poet, artist, and theorist, and the instigator of entopic graphomania. Together with Gherasim Luca, he was the author of '' Dialectique de la dial ...

. Its subtitle was ''Message to the International Surrealist Movement''. Like the artists previous work it was largely based on surrealist theory and the sustainance of the surrealist movement. It called for the preservation of the surrealist movement in a "constantly revolutionary state" to counter the decline of the movement. It begins by criticising the then movement's "artistic deviation" and "the petrification of its revolutionary effort". Following this it makes a statement as to how artists can counter this: by "constantly surpass ngitself".

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is declared to be the "principal method of knowledge and action" for the artists. Finally the artists declare the need to ''"revolt against nature and dissolving the

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in order to liberate love"''.

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''La Dialectique de la Dialectique'' par Gherasim Luca et Dolfi Trost (1945)
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