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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Within the group , moreover , discussions and disputes were frequent ; fractions
meet and even raise the question : is surrealism equivalent to a revolution , or are
they two different things ? and which should one choose ? If the choice is not ...
22 This extravagance is not merely formal ; it derives from a fundamental
conception which makes Revolution into a transcendent value which Éluard
counters once again , apropos of an article in Philosophies , 23 to revolutionary
pragmatism ...
never believed in a “ surrealist revolution . " Let us regard these statements as the
manifestation of their state of mind in 1925 rather than as a specific expression of
the truth . What matters is that the surrealists said they no longer wanted to ...
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FOREWORD Maurice Nadeau | 37 |
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