Selected Poems

Literature & Fiction

André Breton

Kenneth White (translator)

Poetry

JONATHAN CAPE.

First Papers of Surrealism: Hanging by André Breton, His Twine Marcel Duchamp (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from First Papers of Surrealism: Hanging by André Breton, His Twine Marcel DuchampThis communion, a sort of festive ceremonial dedicated to the imagination, has already persisted for two decades. It is not the factor of time, itself, that is so im pressive, for the pure fire of Cubism and collage, which has set in motion continuing metamorphoses of creative energy, was brief in duration, lasting from 1910 to 1913. The imposing fact is that Surrealism from its inception, became and has ever since remained the cardinal germinating source for many of the most gifted and far-see ing artists on the international scene.What is there in our time that creates the condition favorable for this persis tent and magnetic domination? Is it perhaps that Surrealism exists in the very lives of a people functioning in a power age, inherent in the fabulous unreality of living in a shockingly real period; that it is em bedded in the fantastic implications under lyng the bald mechanistic aspect of that age?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Essays & Correspondence

Forgotten Books

"Nadja" is a Surrealist romance, and has come to be known as a book which defined that movement's attitude towards life. With its blend of intimate confession and sense of the marvellous, "Nadja" weaves a mysterious and compelling tapestry of daily life as seen through a magical perspective. Combining autobiographical fact with memory and imagination, Breton spins one of the most unusual love stories in modern literature.

Nadja

GROVE PRESS

Presents the essential ideas of the founder of French surrealism

Manifestoes of Surrealism (Ann Arbor Paperbacks)

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

University of Michigan Press

Manifestoes of Surrealism.

The book is a collection of essays and images that inspired Zoe Beloffs video installation, The Somnambulists 2008. Comprised of five miniature wooden theaters into which moving images are projected, her work centers on the idea of staging the unconscious . Each theater presents a hysterical drama. These include History of a Fixed Idea and A Modern Case of Possession in which two patients of the famous French psycho-pathologist Pierre Janet, express their delusions in song. Other theaters present the ghostly specters of actual hysterics filmed by doctors a hundred years ago. The texts and images included in the book illuminate the complex interweaving of ideas from psychology, writing, performance, art, and moving-image technology at the end of the 19th century. It begins with an introduction to the Players; brief biographies of the scholars, artists, and performers who appear in this volume. The texts include Pierre Janets case study of the writer Raymond Roussel, the Surrealists celebration of hysteria as the greatest poetical invention of the 19th century in The Fiftieth Anniversary of Hysteria and the pioneering psychic researcher Frederic W.H. Myers commentary on Janets contribution to the discovery of the unconscious. Also included are rarely seen photographs by Albert von Schrenck Notzing of artistic production under the influence of hypnosis including images of the celebrated dream dancer Magdelaine G. Included with the book is a DVD-ROM in which Beloffs installation can be viewed as an interactive work for Mac and PC.

The Somnambulists

Louis Aragon

Zoe Beloff

Pierre Janet

Raymond Roussel

Frederic W H Myers

Henry Dircks

Gheorghe Marinesco

Christine Burgin

This classic was first published in 1951. This is the first digital edition, which will be searchable and contain running heads which the original edition did not have. The Dada Painters and Poets. Edited by Robert Motherwell. English transl. by R. Manheim a.o. Bibliography by B. Karpel. Appendices: The Dada Case, by A. Gleizes; A Letter on Hugnet's Dada Spirit in Painting, by T. Tzara; etc. 432 pp., 155 iII., documents, photographs, broadsides, handbills, manifestos and other Dada material reproduced in facsimile, indices.llustrations after:ArpClairDuchampEggelingErnstHausmann]ancoKleePicabiaRichterSchwittersStieglitzTaeuber-Arpet al.andDocumentsObjectsJournalsReviewsManifestoesPhotographsCataloguesInvitationsetc.Texts by:ArpBallBretonBuffet-PicabiaCravanEluardHuelsenbeckHugnetRibemont-DessaignesRichterSatieSchwittersTzaraVachéet al.

The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology

Tristan Tzara

[Robert Motherwell]

Kurt Schwitters

Richard Huelsenbeck

Wittenborn Art Books

"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 teh 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 naja's presence and which inspire him to mediate on their reality or lack of it. "The Nadja of the book is a girl, but, like Bertrand Russell's definition of electricity as "not so much a thing as a way things happen, " Nadja is not so much a person as the way she makes people behave. She has been described as a state of mind, a feeling about reality, k a kind of vision, and the reader sometimes wonders whether she exists at all. yet it is Nadja who gives form and structure to the novel.

Nadja (French Edition)

Literary

French & European Pubns

A short analysis, by 'one-who-was-there', of one of the most significant art movements of our century.

What Is Surrealism?

Other Media

Haskell House Pub Ltd

Writings of the best-known leader of the Surrealist movement in literature and the arts. Includes a facsimile reproduction of the 1942 Surrealist Album by André Breton. Index, Glossary, Annotation
Edited and introduced by Franklin Rosemont, 16-page photo section, additional photos and drawings, glossary, bibliography, index.

What Is Surrealism?: Selected Writings

Pathfinder Press (NY)

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