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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... authority of automatism and reduces the individual consciousness to ( in
Breton ' s words ) “ a modest recording device " for unconscious or collective
experiences , the mind has then lost its integrity and merely yields to forces
outside itself .
After having exhausted the joys of automatic writing and dream narratives , they
felt they possessed creative forces which the atmosphere of the group prevented
them from releasing . Let us venture the word : they no longer felt free , they ...
10 “ It is not a shapeless insurrection that will seize power . What will decide
social destiny today is the organic creation of a vast composition of forces ,
disciplined , fanatical , capable of exercising , when the time comes , a pitiless
authority .
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FOREWORD Maurice Nadeau | 35 |
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