The History of Surrealism"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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... I should be here or there , seduced by the eyes of this woman , finding that same color in the eyes of another , and fixing on her for that reason alone , why I decide on a certain activity which is no more necessary or indifferent ...
I have counted , before going to sleep , clouds and clouds of tanks full of beets for the sun , and I want to take you at night to the astrakhan beach that they are building with two horizons for your wartime petroleum eyes , I'll take ...
... with a mirror sex My wife with tear - filled eyes With eyes of violet panoply and magnetic needle My wife with savanna eyes My wife with watery eyes to drink in prison My wife with wooden eyes always under the axe With eyes of water ...
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Gebruikersrecensie - giovannigf - LibraryThingVery comprehensive history of the movement largely based on the group's documents: manifestos, edicts, articles, and speeches. Unfortunately that means that the individual participants remain sketchy ... Volledige review lezen