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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Maurice Nadeau. latter sought to pass itself off as a positive doctrine of Revolution , an ambition which the surrealists ... pass off surrealism as an a priori distortion of Marxism ... We must also protest your insistence on presenting ...
... pass for what it is not , a liberation from the literary rules , when it has actually taken a place outside of literature , has nothing to do with litera- ture . He sees quite clearly where the critics are ready to pigeon- hole it in ...
... pass neither as arbitrary nor amusing . These names do not seem to us at all contradictory to each other , and we hope to make it understood why . Monsieur Barbusse should heed what we say , for it would keep him from abusing the ...