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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... revolutionaries . A more general ques- tion arose : why should they monopolize the revolutionary de- termination ? Was it not characteristic of many ? Who would draw the line between the revolutionaries and the others ? Did there exist ...
... revolutionary viewpoint ? . . . To what de- gree are they tolerable ? We see , then , that in principle it was not a question of personal differences or of petty jealousies . It was a question of the only viewpoint which the surrealists ...
... revolutionary , the same moral stance as to assume responsibility for one's acts . But the surrealists , as we have already seen apropos of the Traité du style , 2 " Certain revolutionary intellectuals , and especially the surrealists ...