Surrealism (World of Art) - Softcover

Patrick Waldberg

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0500200408 ISBN 13: 9780500200407

Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 1978

Synopsis

The character of Surrealism had been crystallizing over the previous five years when, in 1924, Andr

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Review:

Waldberg sensibly gives the bulk of his space to the actual documents of the movement--the manifestos, the editorials, the outcries. Breton, Desnos, Eluard, Aragon, Ernst--these and others are represented. The pictorial documentation is even more lavish--here are all the major figures connected with the movement, 'taken from the life, ' often by the perceptive camera of Man Ray.

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'An excellent picture of a movement which ... has had a profound effect on the arts of the twentieth century' - The Times Educational Supplement

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd
• Publication date: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0500200408
• ISBN 13: 9780500200407
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128