The History of SurrealismBelknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2000 - 351 pagina's "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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... activity that has occurred in the East during the course of the last few years . I shall add that it is only by a real abuse of language that this latter activity can be characterized as revolutionary ... As we see , the Revolution is ...
... activity became aware of its " relative inadequacy , " he indicates how it " ceased to be content with the results ( automatic texts , accounts of dreams , improvised speeches , poems , spontaneous drawings or acts ) it had initially ...
... activity seizes , in other words , the ultra - confusional activity which takes its source in the obsessive idea . This uninterrupted transformation permits the paranoiac to regard the very images of the external world as unstable and ...