Surrealism
The Road to the Absolute
Format:Paperback
Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
Published:1st Jan '87
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
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 poetry.
This volume includes photographs of the poets and reproductions of paintings by Ernst, Dali, Tanguy, and others.
ISBN: 9780226035604
Dimensions: 23mm x 13mm x 2mm
Weight: 369g
270 pages