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The milk bowl of feathers: essential surrealist writings

✍ Scribed by Mary Ann Caws

Book ID
100625848
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Year
2018
Tongue
en-US
Weight
285 KB
Series
New Directions paperbook 1422
Edition
Illustrated
Category
Fiction
City
France.
ISBN
0811227073

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

An exciting new collection of the essential writings of surrealism, the European avant-garde movement of the mind's deepest powers

Originating in 1916 with the avant-garde Dada movement at the famous CafΓ© Voltaire in Zurich, surrealism aimed to unleash the powers of the creative act without thinking. Max Ernst, AndrΓ© Breton, Tristan Tzara, Paul Γ‰luard, Philippe Soupault, and Louis Aragon created a movement that spread wildly to all corners of the globe, inspiring not only poetry but also artists like Joan Miro and RenΓ© Magritte and cinematic works by Antonin Artaud, Luis Bunuel, and Salvador DalΓ­. As the editor, Mary Ann Caws, says, "Essential to surrealist behavior is a constant state of openness, of readiness for whatever occurs, whatever marvelous object we might come across, manifesting itself against the already thought, the already lived."

Here are the gems of this major, mind-bending aesthetic, political, and humane...

✦ Subjects

France

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