Surrealism became an official aesthetic movement of the modern period with the publication of which work ?
Correct answer: A. Andre Breton's "Surrealist Manifesto"
- A. Andre Breton's "Surrealist Manifesto"
- B. James Joyce's "Ulysses"
- C. Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises"
- D. T.S. Eliot's "The Wasteland"
Explanation
Surrealism was formally announced through André Breton’s “Manifesto of Surrealism” in 1924. Joyce, Hemingway, and Eliot were major modernists, but their listed works did not establish Surrealism as an official movement.
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