Surrealism, Politics and Culture (Studies in European Cultural Transition)
Contributors: Raymond Spiteri (Editor); Donald Lacoss (Editor)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: August 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780754609896
Subjects: Cultural studies; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Political activism; Surrealism & Dada; Surrealism; European; Arts; Literary Criticism; Art & Art Instruction; Reference; General; 20th century; Arts, European; Europe; Political aspects
First sentence: Including as it did at one time or another writers and artists of the calibre of Louis Aragon, André Breton, Paul Eluard, René Char, Michel Leiris, René Crevel, Robert Desnos, Antonin Artaud, Raymond Queneau, Tristan Tzara, Pierre Naville, Max Ernst, André Masson and Alberto Giacometti, to mention just a handful of the hundred or so who joined its ranks, the Surrealist group probably exercised a greater influence on the intellectual climate of the interwar period in France than any other comparable movement.