Andre Breton: Surrealism and Paintings - Softcover

Andre Breton; Simon Watson Taylor; Polizzotti, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0878466282 ISBN 13: 9780878466283

Publisher: Museum of Fine Arts,Boston, 2002

Synopsis

Originally published in 1928 and augmented throughout the author's life, Surrealism and Painting is the single most important statement ever written on Surrealist art. While many pages have been devoted to visual Surrealism, this is the only book on the subject by the movement's founder and prime theorist. It contains André Breton's seminal treatise on the origins and foundations of artistic Surrealism, with his trenchant assessments of its precursors and practitioners, and his call for the plastic arts to "refer to a purely internal model," to excavate the "dark continent" of consciousness. Also included are essays--many of them classics in their own right--on Picasso, Duchamp, Kahlo, Dali, Ernst, Masson, Gorky, Picabia, Miro, Magritte, Kandinsky, Hantai and others, as well as pieces on Gallic art, outsider art and the folk arts of Haiti and Oceania. But above and beyond the subject matter, what makes this book so enduringly compelling is Breton's signature mixture of rigorous erudition and visceral passion, his sense of art as adventure, and his discoveries of many of Modernism's most prominent figures early in their careers. Long unavailable in English, Surrealism and Painting is not only a supremely exciting work of art criticism, but also one of the three or four indispensable references for any serious discussion of modern art.

About this title

Synopsis

Reprint of the 1965 volume that collects writings by Breton, the founder and prime theorist of surrealistic art. They include his seminal treatise on the origins and foundations of artistic surrealism; essays on Picasso, Duchamp, Dali, Ernst, Massoon and many others; and pieces on Gaulish and outsider art and the arts of Haiti and Oceania. Contains

Edition details

• Publisher: Museum of Fine Arts,Boston
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0878466282
• ISBN 13: 9780878466283
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 448