Surrealism The Road to the Absolute

Name: Surrealism The Road to the Absolute
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ISBN: 9780226035604

ISBN-10: 0226035603

ISBN-13: 9780226035604

Edition: 3rd 1987

Authors: Anna Balakian

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First published in 1959, Surrealism remains the most readable introduction to the French surrealist poets Apollinaire, Breton, Aragon, Eluard, and Reverdy. Providing a much-needed overview of the movement, Balakian places the surrealists in the context of early twentieth-century Paris and describes their reactions to symbolist poetry, World War I, and developments in science and industry, psychology, philosophy, and painting. Her coherent history of the movement is enhanced by her firsthand knowledge of the intellectual climate in which some of these poets worked and her interviews with Reverdy and Breton. In a new introduction, Balakian discusses the influence of surrealism on contemporary…

Book details

List price: $33.00
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 1987
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 1/15/1987
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 270
Size: 0.53" wide x 0.91" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.682



Introduction to the third edition


Introduction


Preface to the First Edition


The Signal Lights



Out of the Forest of Symbols



Lautreacute;amont's Battle with God



Saint-Pol-Roux and the Apocalypse



Apollinaire and l'Esprit Nouveau



Pierre Reverdy and the Materio


Mysticism of Our Age


The Road



Breton and the Surrealist Mind


The Influences of Freud and Hegel



The Surrealist Image



The Surrealist Object


The Bend in the Road



The Post-Surrealism of Aragon and Eluard



To Transform the World



The World Transformed


Epilogue


Index