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Surrealism and painting / André Breton ; translated by Simon Watson Taylor ; introduction by Mark Polizzotti.

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Original language: French Series: ArtWorksPublisher: Boston, Massachusetts : MFA Publications, a division of the Museum of Fine Arts, 2002Edition: First "artWorks" editionDescription: xxx, 415 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 27 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780878466283
  • 0878466282
Uniform titles:
  • Surréalisme et la peinture. English.
Subject(s):
Contents:
Introduction : André Breton and painting / Mark Polizzotti -- I. Surrealism and painting (1928) -- II. Artistic genesis and perspective of surrealism (1941) -- III. Fragments (1933-1961) -- Marcel Duchamp : Lighthouse of The bride (1934) -- Pablo Picasso. Picasso in his element (1933) ; Reply to an inquiry (1955) ; 80 carats ... with a single flaw (1961) -- Victor Brauner. White rose bunch (1934) ; Entre chien et loup (14 July 1946) -- Oscar Dominguez : Concerning a decalcomania without preconceived object (decalcomania of desire) (1936) -- Salvador Dali : The Dali 'case' (1936) -- Wolfgang Paalen. No longer the diamond in the hat (1938) ; A man at the junction of two highways (1950) -- Frida Kahlo de Rivera (1938) -- The most recent tendencies in surrealist painting (1939) -- André Masson : The magical eloquence of André Masson (1939) -- Max Ernst. The legendary life of Max Ernst preceded by a brief discussion of the need for a new myth (1942) ; Graphic works (1950) -- Wifredo Lam. The long nostalgia of poets (1941) ; At night in Haiti (1946) -- Yves Tanguy. Prologue (1938) ; What Tanguy veils and reveals (1942) -- Matta. The pearl is marred, in my eyes (1944) ; Three years ago (1947) -- Enrico Donati (1944) -- Arshile Gorky (1945) -- Jacques Hérold (1947) -- Toyen. Introduction to the work of Toyen (1953) ; 'The clairvoyante' (1958) -- Edgar Jené (1948) -- Riopelle : Private conversation (1949) -- Francis Picabia. Binoculars for blindfolded eyes (1950) ; Letter (1952) -- Gérôme Kamrowski (1950) -- Rufino Tamayo (1950) -- My friends Seigle (1951) -- Simon Hantaï (1953) -- Judit Reigl (1954) -- Max Walter Svanberg. The viking's concubine (1955) ; I count among the great moments (1961) -- Pierre Molinier (1956) -- Endre Rozsda (1957) -- Yahne Le Toumelin (1957) -- Yves Laloy (1958) -- Joan Miró : 'Constellations' (1958) -- Le Maréchal (1960) -- René Magritte (1961) -- IV. Environs -- Crisis of the object (1936) -- Surrealist exhibition of objects (1936) -- The object-poem (1942) -- Kandinsky (1938) -- The exquisite corpse, its exaltation (1948) -- Autodidacts called 'naïves' (1942) -- Demonchy (1949) -- Miguel G. Vivancos (1950) -- Joseph Crépin (1954) -- Hector Hyppolite (1947) -- The art fo the insane : freedom to roam abroad (1948) -- Maria (1947) -- Agustín Cárdenas (1959) -- The triumph of Gaulish art (1954) -- The presence of the Gauls (1955) -- October lesson (1954) -- Duvillier's drag-net (1955) -- The sword in the clouds, Degottex (1955) -- Marcelle Loubchansky (1956) -- Away with miserabilism! (1956) -- 125 soaring achievements at the Musée d'Art Moderne (1952) -- Aloys Zötl (1956) -- Concerning symbolism (1958) -- Gustave Moreau (1961) -- Henri Rousseau a sculptor? (1961) -- Introduction to the International Surrealist Exhibition (1959) -- The grand ceremonial restored to us at last by Jean Benoît (1962) -- Mimi Parent (1960) -- V. Further affluences and approaches (1963-1965) -- Enrico Baj (1963) -- René Magritte's breadth of vision (1964) -- Camacho faces the jungle (1964) -- Silberman : 'This is the price' (1964) -- Ugo Sterpini and Fabio De Sanctis (1964) -- Konrad Klaheck (1965).
Summary: Originally published in 1928, Surrealism and Painting is the most important statement ever written on surrealist art, and the only book on the subject composed by the movement's founder and prime theorist. It contains Breton's seminal treatise on the origins and foundations of artistic surrealism, with his trenchant assessments of its precursors and practitioners, and his call for the plastic arts to "refer to a purely internal model." Also included are essays - on Picasso, Duchamp, Dali, Ernst, Masson, Miro, and many others, as well as pieces on Gaulish art, outsider art, and the folk arts of Haiti and Oceania. But what makes this book most compelling is Breton's mix of rigorous erudition and visceral passion, his sense of adventure, and his discoveries of many of Modernism's most prominent figures early in their careers. Long unavailable in English, Surrealism and Painting remains one of the masterworks of twentieth-century art criticism.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : André Breton and painting / Mark Polizzotti -- I. Surrealism and painting (1928) -- II. Artistic genesis and perspective of surrealism (1941) -- III. Fragments (1933-1961) -- Marcel Duchamp : Lighthouse of The bride (1934) -- Pablo Picasso. Picasso in his element (1933) ; Reply to an inquiry (1955) ; 80 carats ... with a single flaw (1961) -- Victor Brauner. White rose bunch (1934) ; Entre chien et loup (14 July 1946) -- Oscar Dominguez : Concerning a decalcomania without preconceived object (decalcomania of desire) (1936) -- Salvador Dali : The Dali 'case' (1936) -- Wolfgang Paalen. No longer the diamond in the hat (1938) ; A man at the junction of two highways (1950) -- Frida Kahlo de Rivera (1938) -- The most recent tendencies in surrealist painting (1939) -- André Masson : The magical eloquence of André Masson (1939) -- Max Ernst. The legendary life of Max Ernst preceded by a brief discussion of the need for a new myth (1942) ; Graphic works (1950) -- Wifredo Lam. The long nostalgia of poets (1941) ; At night in Haiti (1946) -- Yves Tanguy. Prologue (1938) ; What Tanguy veils and reveals (1942) -- Matta. The pearl is marred, in my eyes (1944) ; Three years ago (1947) -- Enrico Donati (1944) -- Arshile Gorky (1945) -- Jacques Hérold (1947) -- Toyen. Introduction to the work of Toyen (1953) ; 'The clairvoyante' (1958) -- Edgar Jené (1948) -- Riopelle : Private conversation (1949) -- Francis Picabia. Binoculars for blindfolded eyes (1950) ; Letter (1952) -- Gérôme Kamrowski (1950) -- Rufino Tamayo (1950) -- My friends Seigle (1951) -- Simon Hantaï (1953) -- Judit Reigl (1954) -- Max Walter Svanberg. The viking's concubine (1955) ; I count among the great moments (1961) -- Pierre Molinier (1956) -- Endre Rozsda (1957) -- Yahne Le Toumelin (1957) -- Yves Laloy (1958) -- Joan Miró : 'Constellations' (1958) -- Le Maréchal (1960) -- René Magritte (1961) -- IV. Environs -- Crisis of the object (1936) -- Surrealist exhibition of objects (1936) -- The object-poem (1942) -- Kandinsky (1938) -- The exquisite corpse, its exaltation (1948) -- Autodidacts called 'naïves' (1942) -- Demonchy (1949) -- Miguel G. Vivancos (1950) -- Joseph Crépin (1954) -- Hector Hyppolite (1947) -- The art fo the insane : freedom to roam abroad (1948) -- Maria (1947) -- Agustín Cárdenas (1959) -- The triumph of Gaulish art (1954) -- The presence of the Gauls (1955) -- October lesson (1954) -- Duvillier's drag-net (1955) -- The sword in the clouds, Degottex (1955) -- Marcelle Loubchansky (1956) -- Away with miserabilism! (1956) -- 125 soaring achievements at the Musée d'Art Moderne (1952) -- Aloys Zötl (1956) -- Concerning symbolism (1958) -- Gustave Moreau (1961) -- Henri Rousseau a sculptor? (1961) -- Introduction to the International Surrealist Exhibition (1959) -- The grand ceremonial restored to us at last by Jean Benoît (1962) -- Mimi Parent (1960) -- V. Further affluences and approaches (1963-1965) -- Enrico Baj (1963) -- René Magritte's breadth of vision (1964) -- Camacho faces the jungle (1964) -- Silberman : 'This is the price' (1964) -- Ugo Sterpini and Fabio De Sanctis (1964) -- Konrad Klaheck (1965).

Originally published in 1928, Surrealism and Painting is the most important statement ever written on surrealist art, and the only book on the subject composed by the movement's founder and prime theorist. It contains Breton's seminal treatise on the origins and foundations of artistic surrealism, with his trenchant assessments of its precursors and practitioners, and his call for the plastic arts to "refer to a purely internal model." Also included are essays - on Picasso, Duchamp, Dali, Ernst, Masson, Miro, and many others, as well as pieces on Gaulish art, outsider art, and the folk arts of Haiti and Oceania. But what makes this book most compelling is Breton's mix of rigorous erudition and visceral passion, his sense of adventure, and his discoveries of many of Modernism's most prominent figures early in their careers. Long unavailable in English, Surrealism and Painting remains one of the masterworks of twentieth-century art criticism.

Originally published in French as Le Surréalisme et la peinture: Paris : Editions Gallimard, 1928.