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Nadja»rank: 47863by: Andre Breton
: :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 the 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 Nadja's presence and which inspire him to meditate on their reality or lack of it. |
Manifestoes of Surrealism (Ann Arbor Paperbacks)»rank: 185319by: Andre Breton
: :Presents the essential ideas of the founder of French surrealism |
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Mad Love (French Modernist Library)»rank: 415603by: Andre Breton
: :Mad Love has been acknowledged an undisputed classic of the surrealist movement since its first publication in France in 1937. Its adulation of love as both mystery and revelation places it in the most abiding of literary traditions, but its stormy history and technical difficulty have prevented it from being translated into English until now. 'There has never been any forbidden fruit. Only temptation is divine,' writes André Breton, leader of the surrealists in Paris in the 1920s and '30s. Mad Love is dedicated to defying 'the widespread opinion that love wears out, like the diamond, in its own dust.' Celebrating breton's own love and lover, the book unveils the marvelous in everyday encounters ... |
Martinique: Snake Charmer (Surrealist Revolution Series)»rank: 434525by: Andre Breton
: :In 1941, as the Vichy regime consolidated its control of France, André Breton left the country for the island of Martinique. A poet and the principal founder of surrealism, Breton did not stay long, but his visit inspired the essays and poems of this book. Martinique: Snake Charmer is one of surrealism's most important texts, and it has been called 'the most beautiful of all books' about the island. (Martinique: Snake Charmer also includes nine evocative drawings by the surrealist André Masson, a companion of Breton's during his stay on the island.) First collected into a single volume in 1948 and in print in France ever since, this is the first English ... |
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My Heart Through Which Her Heart Has Passed»rank: 326127by: Andre Breton
: :Previously untranslated poems of love and desperation written by Andre Breton between 1926 and 1931, most of them unpublished during his lifetime. Sometimes sharply autobiographical, sometimes dizzyingly oblique, these poems trace Bretons tumultuous love affair with Suzanne Muzard, the woman who changed the course of his life in the early years of Surrealism. The volume includes an introduction by translator and Breton biographer Mark Polizzotti, discussing the poems' background and history. Printed in a limited edition of 300 copies, with three period photographs of Breton and Muzard. The first one hundred copies are signed by the translator. |
Drawing From The Modern»rank: 312763by: Andre Breton, Paul Gauguin, Georges Bataille, Jodi Hauptman, Hans Bellmer, Constantin Brancusi, Paul Cezanne, Marc Chagall, Giorgio De Chirico, Robert Delaunay, Andre Derain, Arthur Dove, Alexandra Alexandrovna Exter, Arshile Gorky, Juan Gris, Gustav Klimt, Wilfredo Lam, Filippo Marinetti, Joan Miro
: :Many of the key achievements in art of the last 125 years have been worked out on paper. From pictorial investigations that expanded the possibilities of vision to the invention of entirely new kinds of media, drawing has been the perfect laboratory for avant-garde experimentation. Drawing from the Modern traces such groundbreaking innovation through the unparalleled holdings of the drawings collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Drawing has historically been understood as a mark or line on paper--the record of a bodily gesture, an inscription of the action of the hand, an expression of the mind. Since the 1880s, however, artists have sought to interrupt these seemingly unbreakable links between mark, ... |
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Poems of Andre Breton: A Bilingual Anthology»rank: 392616by: Andre Breton
: :Andre Breton (1896-1966) was the founder of Surrealism and a major leader of the avant-garde movement in France following World War I. Breton is internationally famous for his many prose works, including the 'Manifestoes of Surrealism' and the novel 'Nadja'. Breton's poetry- imaginative, alive with the bizarre and striking images that are characteristic of Surrealism in the visual arts- is increasingly finding a wider audience that has come to appreciate his poetry as a witness to an influential movement and as an achievement unto itself. This exceptional volume brings together the most comprehensive selection of poems by Breton available in English. Here, in a bilingual French-English format are 73 poems representing all ... |
André Breton: Surrealism and Painting»rank: 631989by: Andre Breton, Alain Masson, Joan Miro, Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Rene Magritte, Pablo Picasso, Yves Tanguy, Francis Picabia, Max Ernst, André Breton
: :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 suject by the movement's founder and prime theorist. It contains Andra 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.' Also included are essays--many of them classics in their own right--on Picasso, Duchamp, Kahlo, Dal', Ernst, Masson, Gorky, Picabia, MirA, Magritte, Kandinsky, and others, as well as ... |
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Anthology of Black Humor»rank: 450115from: City Lights Publishers
: :This is the first publication in English of the anthology that contains Breton's definitive statement on l'humour noir, one of the seminal concepts of Surrealism, and his provocative assessments of the writers he most admired. While some of the authors featured in the Anthology of Black Humor are already well known to American readers-Swift, Kafka, Rimbaud, Poe, Lewis Carroll, and Baudelaire among them (and even then, Breton's selections are often surprising)-many others are sure to come as a revelation. The entries range from the acerbic aphorisms of Swift, Lichtenberg, and Duchamp to the theatrical slapstick of Christian Dietrich Grabbe, from the wry missives of Rimbaud and Jacques Vache to the manic paranoia ... |
Antologia Del Humor Negro»rank: 768044by: Andre Breton
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