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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... 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 in ideas . The surrealists ' conception of it ...
... course it was not a parliamentary government that was being defended by the working masses , mobilized at the time of the general strike that followed ... But the affair was a serious warning for the revolutionaries . Were they , as in ...
... course I am not claiming that the poem " Red Front " corresponds to the definition of an " automatic " text ( I shall even try to show later on how it differs from such a text ) , but on the other hand , I believe that the poetic ...