"I believe," Andre Breton said, "in the future resolution of the states of dream and reality--in appearance so contradictory--in a sort of absolute reality, or "surrealite."" The Surrealist movement, born in the 1920s out of the ferment of Dada, committed to revolution against bourgeois rationalism, and inspired by Freudian exploration of the unconscious, has reverberated more widely and deeply than perhaps any other art movement in our century. Its automatism, biomorphic shapes, visionary mode, and manipulation of found objects mark the work of artists as different as Ernst, Miro, ...
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cabridge, Mass.
Date published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780674403451ISBN:0674403452
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Cover: clean and bright, some superficial scratches, binding tight, edges of pages smudged, a few highlighted pages, 3 dogear pages, otherwise nice condition. Text in English, French. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 351 p. 21x14cm, Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Plantin Publishers, London
Date published: 1987
ISBN-13:9781870495035ISBN:1870495039
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 351 pp., [8] pp. of plates, illus.; 23 cm. First published, 1944, under title: Histoire du surrealisme. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Stained foreedge & edges of wraps. Appears unread. Red wraps with cover illustration by Magritte. Scarce edition. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Belknap Press
Date published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780674403451ISBN:0674403452
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Text in English, French. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 351 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Macmillan, New York
Date published: 1965
Description: Photographs. Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo In a Mylar cover. A handsome copy of this important work, with an introduction by Roger Shattuck. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Date published: 30/08/1973
ISBN-13:9780140216851ISBN:0140216855
Description: Used-Good. Book in good or better condition. Dispatched same day from US or UK warehouse. Please email with any questions for quick response. read more
Edition: First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Macmillan Company, New York
Date published: 1965
Description: Good in Good+ jacket. Ex-Library. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Ex-Library. Contents have occasional penciling. Cover and endpages have tape remnants. Jacket has minor wear and soiling. 351 pages. Translated by Richard Howard. Introduction by Roger Shattuck. A study of the foundations of surrealism in the early 1920s and of the development of that movement in art. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Macmillan Company, New York
Date published: 1965
Description: Acceptable in Acceptable jacket. Ex-library book, in mylar, with usual markings. Some wear/scuffing to cover, wear/rubbing/fraying to edges, dust jacket taped to boards (tape marks inside cover), ffep cut from book (cut in next page), lightly tanned pages, penciled circles on "Contents" page, underlining on a few pages. read more
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Macmillan Company, New York
Date published: 1965
Description: Very Good-/No Jacket. 8vo 351pp, b/w illus. 1st ed. POS. Spine & head edges sunned, some very mild wear & soiling, else VG+. Internally clean. No dj. read more
"The best historical introduction in the movement of Surrealism. Follows closely its evolution, the relation between its members, the ideological changes through the years, the dialectic developed in relation to society. Gives special emphasis to the outstanding surrealists, without neglecting the contribution of the less known among them. The surrealistic revolution was not, as it is well known, only a revolution in Art, but in life as well. Art and life, connected, each influences the other. Amour fout, objective chance, black humor, ecriture automatique are main aspects and dynamics of the movement. The desire, according to Nadeau, is finaly the most powerful motive in life; the objectification of which must be our main task."
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