ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the relationship between Paris and Brussels from the particular angle of the attitude they adopted towards their political commitment. It also examines the conditions surrounding the complete reversal in the attitude of both groups towards the communist parties in both countries, from 1927 to 1947, will allow to make a number of points emerge with regards to their conception of 'the' revolution as avant-garde movements. The surrealists realized that the ambiguous status of art in bourgeois society provided the key to understanding the contradiction between negation and affirmation implicit in the autonomous mode in which art functioned. The lack of art's social impact that the surrealists wanted to move away from, with a specific aim to reintegrate art into the praxis of life. The French surrealists sought on the contrary to integrate their activity into the praxis of life, seeking social effectiveness for their own medium, leading to ever more radical confrontations with bourgeois society.
