SURREALISM miro breton eluard duchamp dali max ernst

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ISBN 0500200407

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The culmination of radical transformations in the arts initiated largely by Dada was the first Surrealist manifesto issued by Andre Breton - leader and principal theorist of Surrealism - in 1924, two years after the Dada movement split. Breton published two more manifestos in 1930 and 1934. In the first Manifesto, Surrealism is defined not so much as a formal movement as a spiritual orientation, embracing ethics and politics as well as the arts. Recourse to dreams, to the unconscious, to chance events, to automatism were crucial to the Surrealist undertaking. The long list of artists associated with Surrealism includes several whose influence and perennial popularity are today as pronounced as ever, among them Ernst, Miro, Duchamp, Magritte and Dali. The key documents included in this book, in addition to Breton's manifestos, are Eluard's Food for Vision; Dali's Conquest of the Irrational; Ernst's Beyond Painting; and articles from the Surrealist magazine La Revolution Surrealiste. Patrick Waldberg introduces these in surveying Surrealism from its inception.

CONTENTS:

Preface by Patrick Waldberg
Patrick Waldberg: The Paths of Surrealism
La Revolution Surrealiste
Andre Breton: First Surrealist Manifesto
Andre Breton: Second Surrealist Manifesto
Andre Breton: Surrealism and Painting
Paul Eluard: Food for Vision
Salvador Dali: Conquest of the Irrational
Andre Breton: The Exquisite Corpse
Max Ernst: Beyond Painting
Text References
Biographical Notes
Chronology
Selected Bibliography
List of Illustrations
Photograph Acknowledgments
Index

128 pages. Softcover. Ex-library.

Weight = 800 g

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