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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... attack first of all upon a realism " hostile to any intellectual and moral advance , " and of which Breton had a horror because he found it consisted of nothing but " mediocrity , hatred and banal complacency . " Then an attack on the ...
... attacked , and nothing shows this better than the polemic between Aragon and the editor of the leftist review Clarté ... attack a phrase which bears witness to my lack of enthusiasm for the Bolshevik gov- 1 " Social constraint has had ...
... attack it " -a deliberate 4 And to give it the following definition : " Hysteria is a more or less irreducible mental state characterized by the subversion of the relations between the subject and the moral world to which be believes he ...