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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... social form , " and even employed strict Leninist formulas to define it.10 This unequivocal declaration left the polemic with Aragon far behind . Bernier explained this new position by the fact that Breton and his friends had come to ...
... social commitment Twas not thereby settled . In the very heart of the surrealist group , it was to be raised again and to occasion , as Breton observed , " characteristic altercations . " 1 Inevitable ones , for surrealism was never a ...
... social conditions which more than any other determine the vicissitudes of our life , and for this reason some have censured Breton for not having completely closed the door to " mysticism . " Breton posits a man sufficiently freed from ...