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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... longer against any- thing , to keep silence . Then actions will truly be in agreement with words , or rather the absence of actions to the absence of words ; and the conformists ask for nothing better than this re- assuring prospect.18 ...
... longer normal , in which Breton often loses his way . What she says always seems to proceed from a transcendant realm in which she lives quite naturally . She has visions , hallucinations which she shares with her companion ; she lives ...
... longer be a surrealist . If the two paths were parallel , they could no longer intersect . Surrealism would remain alive only so long as Breton , managing to operate on both levels , could sustain it on its own contradictions . From ...