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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... nonetheless chosen to discuss it from the margin , it is because this position also affords advantages : if only that of objectivity , which exceeds the qualification of pure testimony . Not in relation to the general design ( some ...
... nonetheless reached the point where violent contradictions now appeared , and Breton , excellent tactician that he was , sought to reduce the right ( the literary men ) and the left ( the agita- tors14 ) , at the same time that he tried ...
... nonetheless continued to publish the essays and poems of his friends . Aragon , Breton , Éluard , Péret , Unik , shaken by his argu- ments nonetheless , decided to offer hostages to the position he defended by joining the Communist ...