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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... human servility leaves the world . Let the day be a holiday when we bury cunning , traditionalism , patriotism , opportunism , skepticism and lack of heart ! Let us remember that the lowest actors of this period have had Anatole France ...
... human conduct ... Hence we must no longer speak of heterogeneous , even antag- onistic realms . " Dream and action " -another false antinomy . It seems that logic is comfortable only amid these analyses , these divisions , these ...
... human unconscious . " One might say more generally : in the labyrinth of the events of his life , a man naturally chooses those which suit him , which suit his ultimate self , including mis- fortunes , diseases , individual catastrophes ...