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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... entirely unexplored , it is without illusions but with courage and confidence in the destiny of surrealism that Breton exclaims : " It is the innocence , the anger of a few men of the future that will be responsible for disengaging from ...
... entirely voluntary fashion , con- tradictory to their understanding of this automatism , and for purposes which there is no reason to examine here . One may simply observe that their acts , and their painting which finds its place among ...
... entirely in cases when certain texts of incon- testable " automatic " character were incriminated . I then was care- ful to emphasize the extreme fragility of the accusation , for example , of provocation to murder under which , perhaps ...