Surrealism Against The Current: Tracts and DeclarationsBringing together many Surrealist texts that have never previously been available in English, this collection is an essential guide for anyone who wishes to understand the Surrealist movement. Including a wealth of original works, it traces its development in the words of the Surrealists themselves, offering a definitive expression of Surrealism as a collective movement. It shows the extent of Surrealist positions and interests and shows how, having become a major cultural phenomenon of the twentieth century, the issues it has raised remain central to current debates.Covering the period 1922-91, these key texts illuminate its philosophical, political and ethical positions and locate Surrealism in a broader social and cultural context. Comprising statements from Surrealist groups in Paris, Belgium, Romania, Sweden and Czechoslovakia, and signed by the major participants, it reveals the international dimension of Surrealism and shows how it has maintained vitality in response to changing social and political exigencies. Chapters cover the historical orientation of Surrealism; its involvement with revolutionary politics; its ethical concerns and its defense of the 'security of the spirit'; and its position on colonialism. In particular, the volume brings attention to the extent to which Surrealism represented a 'collective adventure' in which their shared interests brought together groups of individuals to explore themes in common. In this sense, Surrealism truly represented, as André Masson once described it, a 'collective experience of individualism'. |
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Meetings of the French Surrealist Group were essentially social , providing a place of rendezvous . Café meetings were not primarily for serious work : if a tract had to be issued , or an exhibition was being prepared , say , then those ...
Meetings of the French Surrealist Group were essentially social , providing a place of rendezvous . Café meetings were not primarily for serious work : if a tract had to be issued , or an exhibition was being prepared , say , then those ...
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Tracts were sometimes issued countersigned with other groups ( particularly for more overtly political statements ) ... The image of a dogmatic , inflexible surrealist group operating within a rigid membership ( and occasionally obliged ...
Tracts were sometimes issued countersigned with other groups ( particularly for more overtly political statements ) ... The image of a dogmatic , inflexible surrealist group operating within a rigid membership ( and occasionally obliged ...
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But if it is now apparent that by 1969 one phase of the history of French surrealism had been brought to an end ... Its promises , however , were not to be fulfilled ; within a year the French Surrealist Group would be in tatters and ...
But if it is now apparent that by 1969 one phase of the history of French surrealism had been brought to an end ... Its promises , however , were not to be fulfilled ; within a year the French Surrealist Group would be in tatters and ...
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Note on the Selection of Texts | 19 |
Surrealism visŕvis Revolutionary Politics | 93 |
The Security of the Spirit | 139 |
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Surrealism Against The Current: Tracts and Declarations Michael Richardson,Krzystof Fijalkowski Fragmentweergave - 2001 |
Surrealism Against the Current: Tracts and Declarations Michael Richardson,Krzysztof Fijalkowski Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2001 |
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