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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Pagina 33
Although less visible, these errors seem to us just as dangerous for the dialectical
development of thought. Therefore, before moving on to present our detailed
discussion, we feel we should indicate certain existing tendencies within ...
Although less visible, these errors seem to us just as dangerous for the dialectical
development of thought. Therefore, before moving on to present our detailed
discussion, we feel we should indicate certain existing tendencies within ...
Pagina 36
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.
Pagina 90
This new imaginary object in its deepest substance is founded on the
complementarity of systems of analogy and dialectic, with the knowledge of its
genetic roots and of the means by which it develops being conditioned on a
general level by ...
This new imaginary object in its deepest substance is founded on the
complementarity of systems of analogy and dialectic, with the knowledge of its
genetic roots and of the means by which it develops being conditioned on a
general level by ...
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Inhoudsopgave
Note on the Selection of Texts | 19 |
Surrealism visavis Revolutionary Politics | 93 |
The Security of the Spirit | 139 |
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