Aragon marketed surrealism as a fairground-barker’s new vice

Evidence

A fresh vice has just been born, one more frenzy has been given to mankind: surrealism, child of madness and gloom. Step up, step up! Here is where the kingdoms of the instantaneous begin! — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 823

Categorization

• CANDY: A vivid quote that captures surrealism’s self-promotional rhetoric in a single punchy image.