Dolfi or Dolphi Trost (1916 in

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– 1966 in

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) was a

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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 l ...

poet, artist, and theorist, and the instigator of entopic graphomania. Together with

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, he was the author of ''

Dialectique de la dialectique ''Dialectique de la dialectique'' is a 1945 text publication by Romanian surrealists Gherasim Luca and Dolfi Trost. Its subtitle was ''Message to the International Surrealist Movement''. Like the artists previous work it was largely based on surre ...

'' (1945). He also authored a work entitled ''Le même du même''. He also wrote the book, '' Vision dans le cristal. Oniromancie obsessionelle. Et neuf graphomanies entoptiques.'' as part of his

art theory Aesthetics, or esthetics, is a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of beauty and taste (sociology), taste, as well as the philosophy of art (its own area of philosophy that comes out of aesthetics). It examines aesthetic values, ...

. In 1941, Trost and Luca were among the founders of the

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group of surrealists, which also included

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, Paul Păun, and

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* Petre Răileanua
"D. Trost: decalogul visului"
Revista Sud-Est, 2006/3 Romanian illustrators 20th-century Romanian poets Romanian male poets Romanian surrealist artists Romanian surrealist writers Romanian writers in French Writers who illustrated their own writing People from Brăila 1916 births 1966 deaths 20th-century Romanian male writers Romanian expatriates in the United States {{romania-writer-stub