The surrealism reader : an anthology of ideas / edited by Dawn Ades and Michael Richardson with Krzysztof Fijalkowski.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ades, Dawn, editor.

Richardson, Michael, 1953- editor, translator.

Fijałkowski, Krzysztof, editor, translator.

Adam H. Fetterolf Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Surrealism--Philosophy.

Surrealism.

Surrealism (Literature)--Philosophy.

Surrealism (Literature).

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

368 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.

Summary:

One of the most influential cultural movements of the past century, surrealism has been extensively studied within the framework of its contributions to art and literature-but its pivotal role in the development of intellectual ideas, both political and philosophical, has yet to be fully explored. Featuring writings from the 1920s up to the late 1990s, this anthology-the first of its kind in English-finally reveals surrealism's diverse scope, its deep contributions to the history of ideas, and its profound implications for contemporary thought. Including essays by leading surrealists the volume addresses the key themes of identity, otherness, freedom and morality, and poetry. The texts uncover, among other things, the significance of surrealism for the antifascist and anticolonialist movements and the various manifestations of surrealism in the years after World War II. Giving space to the many different voices that made up the movement, and placing them for the first time within a clear and coherent historical framework, "The Surrealism Reader" radically revises the popular understanding of what, and when, surrealism was-making this book an essential reference for students, scholars, and all those interested in the central place of surrealism within twentieth-century thought and culture. Book jacket.

Contents:

The annihilation of self-identity

Introduction

Being and its reflections / Jacques Hérold

The haunting / André Breton

Preface in praise of popular prejudices / Pierre Mabille

The noble mannequin seeks and finds her skin / René Crevel

The light, the shadow and the prey / Paul Nougé

Mirrors / Pierre Mabille

The "caput mortuum" or the alchemist's wife / Michae Leiris

Non-scientific treatise on the fourth dimension / Marcel Marien

What is a woman? / Leonora Carrington

Leave everything / Annie Le Brun

Memory of the last / Vincent Bounoure

You always cherish your failures, machine-man / Bernard Caburet

The challenge of otherness

Pamphlet against Jerusalem / Robert Desnos

The universal bases of culture / Antonin Artaud

Don't clutter up the colonies (fragments); Approaching the enchanted castle / Jacques Viot

The patriotism of the unconscious / René Crevel

Ruins: ruine de ruines / Benjamin Péret

The nocturnal island / The Bucharest Surrealist Group

The friendship of man and beast / Georges Bataille

Cat=clover / Jacqueline Sénard-Duprey

Embers in Ceridwen's cauldron / André Breton

Light of life / Benjamin Péret

The twilight of the wheeler-dealers / Robert Benayoun

The passage from poetry to philosophy / René Ménil

A creolism sewn with white thread / Annie Le Brun

The exit from Egypt / René Alleau

The moral imperative

It's up to you / Louis Aragon

Note on freedom / Louis Aragon

Humour as a moral attitude / Marko Ristić

Love of revolution in our time / Nicolas Calas

Liberty versus liberation / André Breton

Reflections on the executioner and the victim / Georges Bataille

Is surrealism a philosophy? / Gérard Legrand

Freedom as nostalgia and as project / Georges Henein

The hidden being / Elisabeth Lenk

Festival mood / Philippe Audoin

Paradise / PIerre Mabille

The tasks of art and poetry

Notes on poetry / André Breton and Paul Éluard

The social anarchy of art / Antonin Artaud

The rotting donkey / Salvador Dalí

Specification of poetry / Roger Caillois

Essay on the situation of poetry / Tristan Tzara

Inviolable images / Paul Nougé

Systematisation and determination / Roger Caillois

The subversive function of poetry / Georges Henein

On surrealist semiology / Karel Teige

The sense of the world / René Magritte

Automatic perspective / Adrien Dax

Notes on poetry / Paul Nougé

Surrealism and the savage heart / Vincent Bounoure

Magic art and revolution / Vincent Bounoure and Vratislav Effenberger

On the utilitarian conception of language / Vratislav Effenberger.

Notes:

"First published 2015 by order of the Tate Trustees by Tate Publishing, a division of Tate Enterprises Ltd."

"All translations, except where otherwise stated, are by Krzysztof Fijalkowski and Michael Richardson."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Adam H. Fetterolf Fund.

ISBN:

9780226369969

022636996X

OCLC:

916685042