The history of surrealism
By: by Maurice Nadeau ; translated from the French by Richard Howard ; with an introduction by Roger Shattuck.
Publisher: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9780674403451
Subjects: Surrealism -- History; Arts, Modern -- 20th century -- History
Notes: Bibliography: p. 319-335.
Translation of: Histoire du surréalisme.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Note to the 1989 edition / Roger Shattuck; title: Introduction : Love and laughter : surrealism reappraised / Roger Shattuck; title: Foreword / Maurice Nadeau; title: Part one : The elaboration.; title: The war; title: The poets in the war; title: Dada; title: The stimulators of surrealism; title: Part two : The heroic period, 1923-1925.; title: The period of trances; title: The foundation of the movement; title: First weapons; title: The Moroccan War; title: Part three : The analytical period, 1925-1930.; title: The Naville crisis; title: Au grand jour; title: The year of achievements; title: The crisis of 1929; title: In the service of the revolution; title: Part four : The period of autonomy, 1930-1939.; title: The Aragon affair; title: Dali and paranoia criticism; title: Surrealist politics; title: Toward a surrealist art; title: War again; title: Part five : Epilogue.; title: Breton in the United States; title: Conclusions; title: Thirteen years later; title: Part six : Famous manifestos and documents.; title: 1924.; title: A corpse; title: 1925.; title: Open letter to M. Paul Claudel; title: Declaration of January 27, 1925; title: 1926.; title: Legitimate defense September 1926; title: 1927.; title: With your permission; title: Hands off love; title: 1928.; title: Objective chance : divination; title: 1929.; title: Notes on poetry; title: 1930.; title: A corpse; title: Andre Breton : second surrealist manifesto; title: The surrealist conception of sexual freedom; title: Madness : an attempt to stimulate general paralysis; title: 1931.; title: Free union; title: Red front; title: 1932.; title: The poverty of poetry : the Aragon affair before public opinion; title: The poet's function; title: 1933.; title: Monsieur AA, antiphilosopher; title: 1935.; title: Salvador Dali's concrete irrationality by paranoia criticism; title: 1936.; title: Hello; title: Head against the walls; title: 1937.; title: Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all; title: L'amour fou, l'amour unique; title: Principal works in which the surrealist spirit has been manifested : an unsystematic bibliography; title: Surrealist periodicals, manifestos, tracts, leaflets, catalogues, films, and critical works; title: Biographical notes