Surrealism Against The Current: Tracts and DeclarationsBringing together many Surrealist texts that have never previously been available in English, this collection is an essential guide for anyone who wishes to understand the Surrealist movement. Including a wealth of original works, it traces its development in the words of the Surrealists themselves, offering a definitive expression of Surrealism as a collective movement. It shows the extent of Surrealist positions and interests and shows how, having become a major cultural phenomenon of the twentieth century, the issues it has raised remain central to current debates.Covering the period 1922-91, these key texts illuminate its philosophical, political and ethical positions and locate Surrealism in a broader social and cultural context. Comprising statements from Surrealist groups in Paris, Belgium, Romania, Sweden and Czechoslovakia, and signed by the major participants, it reveals the international dimension of Surrealism and shows how it has maintained vitality in response to changing social and political exigencies. Chapters cover the historical orientation of Surrealism; its involvement with revolutionary politics; its ethical concerns and its defense of the 'security of the spirit'; and its position on colonialism. In particular, the volume brings attention to the extent to which Surrealism represented a 'collective adventure' in which their shared interests brought together groups of individuals to explore themes in common. In this sense, Surrealism truly represented, as André Masson once described it, a 'collective experience of individualism'. |
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We recognise in this dialectical attitude the most concrete possibility of keeping
intact within ourselves the revolutionary mechanism and the means to trample
underfoot any discovery which does not immediately oblige us to find another .
We recognise in this dialectical attitude the most concrete possibility of keeping
intact within ourselves the revolutionary mechanism and the means to trample
underfoot any discovery which does not immediately oblige us to find another .
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The existence of birth traumas and Oedipal complexes , revealed by Freudian
theory , constitutes the natural and mnemonic limits , the unfavourable
unconscious wrinkles , which , unbeknownst to us , control our attitude towards
the outside ...
The existence of birth traumas and Oedipal complexes , revealed by Freudian
theory , constitutes the natural and mnemonic limits , the unfavourable
unconscious wrinkles , which , unbeknownst to us , control our attitude towards
the outside ...
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The grave international situation led the surrealists to look for ways to maintain a
revolutionary position without compromising the moral attitude they saw as the
essential foundation for any revolutionary transformation . This suggested a wider
...
The grave international situation led the surrealists to look for ways to maintain a
revolutionary position without compromising the moral attitude they saw as the
essential foundation for any revolutionary transformation . This suggested a wider
...
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Note on the Selection of Texts | 19 |
Surrealism visŕvis Revolutionary Politics | 93 |
The Security of the Spirit | 139 |
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