André Breton And The Basic Concepts Of Surrealism

Author : André Breton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1541357434

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Manifesto of Surrealism by André Breton Pdf

Two Surrealist Manifestos were issued by the Surrealist movement, in 1924 and 1929. They were both written by Andr� Breton. Andr� Breton was explicit in his assertion that Surrealism was, above all, a revolutionary movement. The first Surrealist manifesto was written by Breton and published in 1924 as a booklet (Editions du Sagittaire). The document defines Surrealism as:"Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express - verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner - the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern." Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings. The aim was to "resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality". Artists painted unnerving, illogical scenes with photographic precision, created strange creatures from everyday objects and developed painting techniques that allowed the unconscious to express itself.

Author : André Breton
Publisher : Pattern Books
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781848647732

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Manifestoes of Surrealism by André Breton Pdf

A collection of both of the Manifestoes of Surrealism written by Andre Breton in 1924 and 1929. The pocket book size to make the two manifestoes more accessible in print without being part of some collected works.

Author : Michel Carrouges
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015066066252

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André Breton and the Basic Concepts of Surrealism by Michel Carrouges Pdf

Author : André Breton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Painters
ISBN : UOM:39015055840394

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Surrealism and Painting by André Breton Pdf

Long unavailable in English, Surrealism and Painting remains one of the masterworks of twentieth-century art criticism."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Clifford Browder
Publisher : Librairie Droz
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Surrealism
ISBN : 260003479X

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André Breton, Arbiter of Surrealism by Clifford Browder Pdf

Author : André Breton
Publisher : Pathfinder Press
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015014524741

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What is Surrealism? by André Breton Pdf

André Breton (1896-1966) was the founder and major theorist of the surrealist movement, one of the most vital currents of modern poetry and revolutionary thought. This compilation of Breton's writings gives a compact survey of his views and the perspectives of international surrealism as they have developed through more than half a century, and as they serve to guide the groups and individuals who, in dozens of centuries, have taken up the surrealist cause. About half of the selections are published here in English for the first time; others are reprinted from scarce, out-of-print periodicals. The editor, Franklin Rosemont, met Breton in 1966, and later that year organised the first indigenous US surrealist group. He is the author of two books of poems and the Manifesto on the Position & Direction of the Surrealist Movement in the United States (1970). He played a major role in organising the 1976 World Surrealist Exhibition in Chicago, by far the largest exhibition ever prepared by the surrealists. He lives in Chicago where he edits Arsenal/Surrealist Subversion, English-language journal of the international surrealist movement.

Author : Haim Finkelstein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351540605

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The Screen in Surrealist Art and Thought by Haim Finkelstein Pdf

An interrogation of the notion of space in Surrealist theory and philosophy, this study analyzes the manifestations of space in the paintings and writings done in the framework of the Surrealist Movement. Haim Finkelstein introduces the 'screen' as an important spatial paradigm that clarifies and extends the understanding of Surrealism as it unfolds in the 1920s, exploring the screen and layered depth as fundamental structuring principles associated with the representation of the mental space and of the internal processes that eventually came to be linked with the Surrealist concept of psychic automatism. Extending the discussion of the concepts at stake for Surrealist visual art into the context of film, literature and criticism, this study sheds new light on the way 'film thinking' permeates Surrealist thought and aesthetics. In early chapters, Finkelstein looks at the concept of the screen as emblematic of a strand of spatial apprehension that informs the work of young writers in the 1920s, such as Robert Desnos and Louis Aragon. He goes on to explore the way the spatial character of the serial films of Louis Feuillade intimated to the Surrealists a related mode of vision, associated with perception of the mystery and the Marvelous lurking behind the surfaces of quotidian reality. The dialectics informing Surrealist thought with regard to the surfaces of the real (with walls, doors and windows as controlling images), are shown to be at the basis of Andr?reton's notion of the picture as a window. Contrary to the traditional sense of this metaphor, Breton's 'window' is informed by the screen paradigm, with its surface serving as a locus of a dialectics of transparency and opacity, permeability and reflectivity. The main aesthetic and conceptual issues that come up in the consideration of Breton's window metaphor lay the groundwork for an analysis of the work of Giorgio de Chirico, Ren?agritte, Max Ernst, Andr?asson, and Joan Mir?he concluding chapter consi

Author : Anna Balakian
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006459627

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André Breton, Magus of Surrealism by Anna Balakian Pdf

Author : Krzysztof Fijalkowski,Michael Richardson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317221913

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Surrealism: Key Concepts by Krzysztof Fijalkowski,Michael Richardson Pdf

Emerging from the disruption of the First World War, surrealism confronted the resulting ‘crisis of consciousness’ in a way that was arguably more profound than any other cultural movement of the time. The past few decades have seen an expansion of interest in surrealist writers, whose contribution to the history of ideas in the twentieth-century is only now being recognised. Surrealism: Key Concepts is the first book in English to present an overview of surrealism through the central ideas motivating the popular movement. An international team of contributors provide an accessible examination of the key concepts, emphasising their relevance to current debates in social and cultural theory. This book will be an invaluable guide for students studying a range of disciplines, including Philosophy, Anthropology, Sociology and Cultural Studies, and anyone who wishes to engage critically with surrealism for the first time. Contributors: Dawn Ades, Joyce Cheng, Jonathan P. Eburne, Krzysztof Fijalkowski, Guy Girard, Raihan Kadri, Michael Löwy, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Michael Richardson, Donna Roberts, Bertrand Schmitt, Georges Sebbag, Raymond Spiteri, and Michael Stone-Richards.

Author : Franklin Rosemont
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Art
ISBN : UVA:X000061135

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André Breton and the First Principles of Surrealism by Franklin Rosemont Pdf

Author : Herbert Read
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:49015001231613

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Surrealism by Herbert Read Pdf

Author : André Breton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Surrealism
ISBN : 0745302653

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What Is Surrealism? by André Breton Pdf

Author : Elza Adamowicz
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 3039103288

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Surrealism by Elza Adamowicz Pdf

This collection of essays, inspired by André Breton's concept of the limites non-frontières of Surrealism, focuses on the crossings, intersections and margins of the surrealist movement rather than its divides and exclusion zones. Some of the essays originated as papers given at the colloquium 'Surrealism: Crossings/Frontiers' held at the Institute of Romance Studies, University of London, in November 2001. Surrealism is foregrounded as a trajectory rather than a fixed body of doctrines, radically challenging the notion of frontiers. The essays explore real and imaginary journeys, as well as the urban dérives of the surrealists and situationists. The concept of crossing, central to a reading of the dynamics at work in Surrealism, is explored in studies of the surrealist object, which eludes or elides genres, and explorations of the shifting sites of identity, as in the work of Joyce Mansour or André Masson. Surrealism's engagement with frontiers is further investigated through a number of revealing cases, such as a political reading of 1930s photography, the parodic rewriting of the popular 'locked room' mystery, or the surrealists' cavalier redrawing of the map of the world. The essays contribute to our understanding of the diversity and dynamism of Surrealism as an international and interdisciplinary movement.

Author : André Breton
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0802150268

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Nadja by André Breton Pdf

"Nadja, " originally published in France in 1928, is the first and perhaps best Surrealist romance ever written, a book which defined that movement's attitude toward everyday life. The principal narrative is an account of the author's relationship with a girl in teh city of Paris, the story of an obsessional presence haunting his life. The first-person narrative is supplemented by forty-four photographs which form an integral part of the work -- pictures of various "surreal" people, places, and objects which the author visits or is haunted by in naja's presence and which inspire him to mediate on their reality or lack of it. "The Nadja of the book is a girl, but, like Bertrand Russell's definition of electricity as "not so much a thing as a way things happen, " Nadja is not so much a person as the way she makes people behave. She has been described as a state of mind, a feeling about reality, k a kind of vision, and the reader sometimes wonders whether she exists at all. yet it is Nadja who gives form and structure to the novel.

Author : Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren,Davis Schneiderman,Tom Denlinger
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780803227811

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The Exquisite Corpse by Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren,Davis Schneiderman,Tom Denlinger Pdf

This work addresses historical and contemporary manifestations of poems, drawings, collages, and performance works that employ the ritual of the 'cadaver exquis'.