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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... merely inaugurates the combat which will be joined by these two men , representing two different states of mind , two opposing " systems , " one of which , historically speak- ing , needed the other to be born , but needed just as much ...
... merely astounded by their discoveries and content to limit themselves to them . The scientific , experimental side yielded , deplorably , to the artistic aspect of the venture . They passively noted the flow of the unconscious , and ...
... merely repeating an idea whose source is Breton , Aragon is said to have followed the same path as Naville to a position of " political opportunism . " Both had , in effect , broken with surrealism to join the Communist Party , but ...