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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... already necessary years ago , is aborted . The survivors soothed , the wounds bandaged , the ruins restored , not without jolts and risks of all kinds , the regime is entitled to suppose that a new age of prosperity is about to begin ...
... already familiar names of Picabia , Breton , Aragon , Éluard , Péret , Jacques Baron , Max Ernst ( who had come from Germany and was successfully employing collage technique already utilized by Picasso ) and Desnos , who under the ...
... already signed a contract , never appeared because the group , suspecting the temptation of “ literature , ” opposed it . Thus what was at stake was not writing , but revolution — that is , effecting as complete a change as possible ...