Surrealism: Theatre, Arts, Ideas (Torchbooks) - Softcover

Sandrow, Nahma

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9780061315992: Surrealism: Theatre, Arts, Ideas (Torchbooks)

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Publisher: Joanna Cotler Books, 1973

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The lively young artists of the Surrealist Movement shocked Paris in the 1920's with the first strong statement of many tendencies which still drive the avant-garde today. They centered art in the artist's identity while including spectators in the act of creation; denied distinctions between life and art, sense and nonsense; and conceived not only drama and film, but also painting, poetry, and music as theatrical performance. CHAPTERS: Historical Background; Dada and Surrealism; The Artist; The Art; The Audience. ILLUSTRATIONS: paintings and sculpture, performance photos, film stills. Bibliography, appendices. Original translation of Surrealist play.

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Nahma Sandrow is the author of Vagabond Stars: A World History of Yiddish Theater and ?God, Man, and Devil?: Yiddish Plays in Translation, as well as of books for two award-winning off-Broadway musicals (Kuni-Leml and Vagabond Stars), and of chapters, article, and reviews about theater and other subjects. She holds degrees from Bryn Mawr College and Yale University School of Drama.

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