The History of Surrealism

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Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1989 - 351 pagina's
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"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 intermediary of
language or writing, that immemorially logical mold which must be smashed, ...
Pagina 117
We have shown how profoundly 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, Lautreamont.
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If we consider any object capable, by the desire of the man who chooses it, of
filling this role, since the number of objects is limitless, the range of the
sensations they cause becomes infinite. It can be a meteorite, a "conic
anamorphosis" by Dali ...

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Richard Howard was born in Cleveland, Ohio on October 13, 1929. He received a B.A. from Columbia University in 1951 and studied at the Sorbonne as a Fellow of the French Government in 1952-1953. He briefly worked as a lexicographer, but soon turned his attention to poetry and poetic criticism. His works include Trappings: New Poems; Like Most Revelations: New Poems; Selected Poems; No Traveler; Findings; Alone with America; and Quantities. He won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1969 for Untitled Subjects. He is also a translator and published more than 150 translations from the French. He received the PEN Translation Prize in 1976 for his translation of E. M. Cioran's A Short History of Decay and the American Book Award for his 1983 translation of Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal. In 1982, he was named a Chevalier of L'Ordre National du Mérite by the government of France. He teaches in the Writing Division of the School of the Arts, Columbia University.

Roger Shattuck taught for many years at Boston University and now resides in Vermont. He is the author, most recently, of "Candor & Perversion".

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TitelThe History of Surrealism
Paperbacks in AA History Series
AuteurMaurice Nadeau
vertaald doorRichard Howard
BijdragerRoger Shattuck
Editiegeïllustreerd, herdruk
UitgeverBelknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1989
Oorspronkelijk uitde University of Virginia
Gedigitaliseerd15 april 2008
ISBN0674403452, 9780674403451
Lengte351 pagina's
  
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