The History of Surrealism"I believe," André Breton said, "in the future resolution of the states of dream and reality--in appearance so contradictory--in a sort of absolute reality, or surréalité." The Surrealist movement, born in the 1920s out of the ferment of Dada, committed to revolution against bourgeois rationalism, and inspired by Freudian exploration of the unconscious, has reverberated more widely and deeply than perhaps any other art movement in our century. Its automatism, biomorphic shapes, visionary mode, and manipulation of found objects mark the work of artists as different as Ernst, Miró, Magritte, and Dali. Maurice Nadeau's History of Surrealism, first published in French in 1944 and in English in 1965, has become a classic. It is both lucid and authoritative--by far the best overall account of this complex movement. Nadeau traces the evolution of Surrealism, bringing to life its many internal debates about politics and art. He relates the movement to its intellectual and artistic environment. And he provides the statements and manifestos of Breton, Aragon, Tzara, and others. |
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CHAPTER 9 THE NAVILLE CRISIS Our age is not one of prophecies , but of expectations . -PIERRE NAVILLE HE question of surrealism's political and social commitment group , it was to be raised again and to occasion , as Breton observed ...
... divided between a metaphysical attitude which Naville characterized as a " theoretical speculation on the data of internal experience and of a certain experience of external objects and events , and a dialectical attitude which was ...
Pierre Naville appeared to be the chief target of these Letters . * He was still — at least nominally — a member of the group , and since he had best effected the transition to political action , which remained endowed with a great ...
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Gebruikersrecensie - giovannigf - LibraryThingVery comprehensive history of the movement largely based on the group's documents: manifestos, edicts, articles, and speeches. Unfortunately that means that the individual participants remain sketchy ... Volledige review lezen
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NOTE TO THE 1989 EDITION | 9 |
FOREWORD | 35 |
1929 | 36 |
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