Surrealist painters and poets
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Art and writings by Surrealist painters and poets from a wide range of countries.In 1951 Robert Motherwell published a collection of writings called The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology. Conceived as a sequel to that volume, Surrealist Painters and Poets: An Anthology does for Surrealism what Motherwell's book did for Dadaism. The concept and contents were discussed with Robert Motherwell and met with his enthusiastic approval.The essays, manifestos, poems, and texts in this anthology offer a composite picture of the Surrealists--their convictions, styles, and spirit--from the movement's beginnings in France just after World War I to its second flowering in America after World War II. The book includes writers and artists from Belgium, Chile, Czechoslovakia, Cuba, Egypt, England, France, Germany, Guyana, Italy, Martinique, Mauritius, Mexico, Spain, Switzerland, Senegal, Uruguay, and the United States. Caws's main criterion for inclusion was that the works be the best and most representative of the different forms of Surrealism. Among others, the artists and writers include Andre Breton, Marcel Duchamp and Rrose Selavy, Max Ernst, Mina Loy, Francis Picabia, and Tristan Tzara.
Title |
Surrealist painters and poets : an anthology / edited by Mary Ann Caws. |
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Publisher |
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press |
Creation Date |
©2001 |
Notes |
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph Includes bibliographical references (pages [517]-525) and index. English |
Content |
Preface: Surrealist Gathering -- Am I A Surrealist? / Eileen Agar -- Remembering Jacqueline Remembering Andre / Mary Ann Caws -- The Journey Is Done / Rene Char -- From The Memoirs of Giorgio de Chirico / Giorgio de Chirico -- Lifeline / Rene Magritte -- From Self-Portrait / Man Ray -- Painting Is a Wager / Andre Masson -- Hymn to Liberty / Philippe Soupault -- Automatic Drawing / Anonymous [Scrutator] -- Oneirocriticism / Guillaume Apollinaire -- From Paris Peasant / Louis Aragon -- From The Fate of La Fontaine / Louis Aragon -- Notes from a Diary / Hans Arp -- The Folly Stone / Fernando Arrabal -- The Shell and the Clergyman: Film Scenario / Antonin Artaud -- The Mountain of Signs / Antonin Artaud. |
Extent |
1 online resource (xxxi, 530 p. ) ill., ports. |
Language |
English |
National Library system number |
997010702850205171 |
MARC RECORDS
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