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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latter sought to pass itself off as a positive doctrine of Revolution , an ambition
which the surrealists had rejected since 1925 . He was therefore asked to correct
these matters publicly for , they said , he knew better than anyone that surrealism
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In the second part of his work , Aragon explains and justifies surrealism , trying ,
here too , to tear it from the vulgarizers ' hands : There is a legend current
nowadays that it is enough to learn the trick , and that forthwith texts of a great
poetic ...
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 for
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