The Bureau of Surrealist Research, also known as the Centrale Surréaliste, was a Paris-based office in which a loosely affiliated group of Surrealist writers and artists gathered to meet, hold discussions, and conduct interviews with the goal of investigating speech under trance. Located at 15 Rue de Grenelle, it opened in October of 1924, almost simultaneously with the publication of the first Surrealist Manifesto. The Surrealist Manifesto was written by the French writer André Breton and published in 1924. ...

One of the more significant contributions of the Bureau was its implicit idea that Surrealism was not to be contained under the category of the aesthetic. An assumption of the Bureau was that Surrealism could be a mode of research, and could produce knowledge on a par with the knowledge produced by scientific researchers. Centuries from now, any art that takes new paths toward a greater emancipation of the mind will be Surrealist. ...

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• Journal of Aesthetics and Protest