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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... less rotten , less immediately GROTESQUE.5 The audience , there to see Charlie Chaplin whose presence the organizers had fraudulently announced , left the hall in the dark , in indescribable disorder , after having cannonaded the ...
... less partial phrases that , in utter solitude , as sleep ap- proached , became perceptible to the mind without its being possible to discover in them ( without a rather elaborate analy- sis ) a previous determination . One evening , in ...
... less severity , with more or less discernment . Surrealism - it was a fact - risked slipping , because of individuals and their reluctance to hold fast to those high summits Breton insisted they inhabit , toward art from the moment he ...