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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Another document , an interior one , reveals still better the true nature of the surrealist movement , which was not an association of men of letters patting each other on the back to insure their success , nor even a school with ...
These positions already constituted a certain originality of the movement , which was marked , further , by the fact that these men were obsessed by the facility with which the fascists had managed , in various nations , to disorganize ...
Apropos of surrealism , he remarked that it was " the only organized movement that has succeeded in covering the distance separating the two wars . He saw its flowering in Julien Gracq's novel The Castle of Argol , “ in which doubtless ...
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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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