Histoire Du Surrealisme

E-179: Paris. Editions Du Seuil.1945. Text in French.. Very Good. 1945. Paperback. Trade PB. 4to. Editions du Seuil, Paris, France. 1945. 358 pgs. Illustrated with and black and white illustrations in the text. Text in French. Wrappers worn with some light shelf-wear to the extremities present. Previous owner's name present to the front wrapper. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. "I believe," André Breton said, "in the future resolution of the states of dream and reality--in appearance so contradictory--in a sort of absolute reality, or surréalité." 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, Miró, Magritte, and Dali. Maurice Nadeau's History of Surrealism, first published in French in 1944 and in English in 1965, has become a classic. It is both lucid and authoritative--by far the best overall account of this complex movement. Nadeau traces the evolution of Surrealism, bringing to life its many internal debates about politics and art. He relates the movement to its intellectual and artistic environment. And he provides the statements and manifestos of Breton, Aragon, Tzara, and others. E-179; 4to 11" - 13" tall .