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“With its unprecedented depth and range, this massive new history of Surrealism from veteran French philosopher and art critic Durozoi will be the one-volume standard for years to come. . . . The book discusses expertly the main surrealist artists like Jean Arp, Max Ernst, Ren谷 Magritte, Yves Tanguy, Salvador Dal赤 and Joan Mir車, but also treats with considerable understanding the surrealist writing by Louis Aragon, Paul Eluard, Robert Desnos, Julien Gra?q and, of course, the so-called ‘Pope of Surrealism,’ Andr谷 Breton. . . . This book should turn up in all serious collections on 20th century art.”〞
From Dada to the Automatists, and from Max Ernst to Andr谷 Breton, G谷rard Durozoi here provides the most comprehensive history of the Surrealist movement. Tracing the movement from its origins in the 1920s to its decline in the 1950s and 1960s, Durozoi tells the history of Surrealism through its activities, publications, and reviews, demonstrating its close ties to some of the most explosive political, as well as creative, debates of the twentieth century.
Drawing on a staggering amount of documentary and visual evidence〞including 1,000 photos〞Durozoi illuminates all the intellectual and artistic facets of the movement, from literature and philosophy to painting, photography, and film, thus making
its definitive encyclopedia.
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