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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... continue.14 This intransigence of Breton's as to the strict autonomy of sur- realism , which he was quite willing to put in the service of the revolution but which he would not sacrifice to it , ultimately caused the project of the new ...
... continue and extend the experiment . It is for them , with a view to their future action , that there must be no backsliding as to the quality of the men who compose the movement today . Let the undesirables leave : the incorrigible ...
... continue on its autonomous way ? Breton was for a middle solution , which con- cealed the contradictions instead of letting them appear : to continue to work autonomously , while proclaiming that the move- ment was working for the ...