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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The poet ' s soul is what it is : a whirling magma of sensations , feelings , desires ,
aspirations expressed in tumult , incoherently , gratuitously , by the ... Surrealism
proclaims the omnipotence of desire , and the legitimacy of its realization .
We have shown how proI foundly World War I had marked the surrealists , how its
horrors and futility had instilled in these men a fierce desire for total destruction ,
for which they sought equivalents in Sade , Borel , Rimbaud , Lautréamont .
... world in which they should function freely ; they become refuges , “ idealistic
evasions , ” whereas paranoia is a systematized activity which aims at a
scandalous intrusion into the world of man ' s desires , of all the desires of all men
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS | 11 |
FOREWORD Maurice Nadeau | 35 |
THE | 45 |
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