| Description |
[xxxiii], 530 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Preface: Surrealist gathering -- Acknowledgements -- Memoirs of surrealism -- Eileen Agar. Am I a surrealist? -- Mary Ann Caws. Remembering Jacqueline remembering Andre -- Rene Char. The journey is done -- Giorgio De Chirico. From the memoirs of Giorgio De Chirico -- Rene Magritte. Lifeline -- Man Ray. From self-portrait -- Andre Masson. Painting is a wager -- Philippe Soupault. Hymn to liberty -- Texts / Anonymous. [Scrutator]; Automatic drawing -- Guillaume Apollinaire. Oneirocritism -- Louis Aragon. From Paris peasant; From the fate of La Fontaine -- Hans Arp. Notes from a diary -- Fernando Arrabal. The folly stone -- Antonin Artaud. The shell and the clergyman: Film scenario; The mountain of signs; From "Van Gogh: The man suicided by society" -- Georges Bataille |
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The absence of myth -- Hans Belimer. From "What oozed through the staircase" -- Yves Bonnefoy. The anti-Plato -- Kay Boyle. A complaint from M and M -- Victor Brauner. On the fantastic: in painting -- Andre Breton. Age; Unclean night; The sexual eagle exults; Less time; Lethal relief; The verb to be; Vigilance; Dreaming I see you; Ascendant sign ; Dear Hazel of Squirrelnut -- Claude Cahun. I am still waiting (answer to questionnaire: "What was the most important encounter of your life?") -- Leonora Carrington. The house of fear; Uncle Sam Carrington -- Aime Cesaire. Serpent sun; The automatic crystal; The virgin forest; Sentence; Breaking with the Dead Sea -- Suzanne Cesaire. The domain of the Marvelous. -- Rene Char. Artine; From Moulin Premier (First Mill.) -- Malcolm de Chazal |
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From sens plastique -- Arthur Cravan. From "Notes" -- Rene Crevel. From Babylon; Everyone thinks himself phoenix.. -- Salvador Dali. The stinking ass; The great masturbator -- Leon Damas. No one remembers -- Robert Desnos. From deuil pour deuil (Mourning for mourning); Oh pangs of love!; I have so often dreamed of you; Sleep spaces; If you knew; No, love is not dead; Obsession; Three stars; From la liberte ou l'amour! (Freedom or love!) -- Marcel Duchamp. The bride -- Jean-Pierre Duprey. Nothing on earth -- Elsa Baroness Von Freytag-Loringhoven. Cafe du Dome; X-ray -- Paul Eluard. Lady love; Second nature; The queen of diamonds; Identities; The Victory at Guernica; Dawn; From nuits partagees (Shared nights) -- Max Ernst. The hundred-headless woman -- Jean Ferry. Kafka or "The secret society" -- |
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Alberto Giacometti. Poem in seven spaces; The brown curtain; Grass coal; Yesterday, the quicksands -- Julien Gracq. Ross' barrier -- Georges Henein. Healthy remedies -- Radovan Ivsic. From King Gordogain -- Frida Kahlo. Letter to Jacqueline Lamba -- Comte De Lautreamont (Isidore Ducasse). From "Chant III" -- Annie Le Brun. Twelfth ring; About fashion -- Michel Leiris. From the heart to the absolute -- Georges Limbour. In the heat of inspiration -- Mina Loy. Oh Marcel...Otherwise I also have been to Louise's; Auto-facial-construction -- Pierre Mabille. The realm of the marvelous; The destruction of the world -- Rene Magritte. Continuous Experience -- Andre Pieyre De Mandiagrues. The passageway of judiciary pleasures -- Joyce Mansour. The vices of men; They have weighed; From "Pericoloso sporgersi" |
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Your figure or the war against fat -- Marcel Marien. Psychological aspects of the fourth dimension -- Andre Masson. The bed of Plato -- Matta. Sensitive mathematics-the architecture of time -- Rene Menil. Colors of childhood, colors of blood; Poem -- Joan Miro. Harlequin's carnival; Each speck of dust -- Paul Nouge. Nothing; Sketch of the human body -- Meret Oppenheim. My friend's dog; Round the world; Without me anyway; Finally -- Wolfgang Paalen. The volcano-pyramid: a mythological hypothesis suggested by the appreanace of a new volcano -- Valentine Penrose. May-1941 -- Benjamin Peret. Listen; Where are you; One to one; The four elements -- Francis Picabia. Aphorisms -- Pablo Picasso. In the corner a violet sword; Give and take twist and kill -- Gisele Prassinos. The wool dress -- Raymond Queneau. Suprises; Dream; The rainbow; Interjections -- Alice Rahon. Despair -- |
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Jacques Rigaut. From Lord Patchgue -- Harold Rosenberg. Life and death of the amorous umbrealla -- Raymond Roussell. Bertha, The child-flower -- Kurt Schwitters. Quadrangle; Priimiitiitiii; lanke TR GL (Skerzoo aux meiner soonate in uurlauten). Marcel Schwob. Paolo Uccello -- Louis Scutenaire. Entries in a journal. RRose Selavy. RRose Selavy demande -- Kurt Seligmann. An eye for a tooth -- Leopold Sdar Senghor. Speech and image: an African tradition of the surreal -- Philippe Soupault. The silent house; Twilight; One two or three; Georgia; Epitaph: Tristan Tzara; Epitaph: Andre Breton; To drink -- Dorothea Tanning. From "Blind date" -- Tristan Tzara. Note on art; Note on poetry; Before night; Part XIX -- Marianne Van Hirtum. Euthanasia - a cat kidnapped - thirty francs - the veterinarian -- William Carlos Williams. The essential roar |
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Other works; Collective works -- Andre Breton and Paul Eluard. Intra-Uterine life; Simulation of general paralysis; Simulation of delirium of interpretation; Force of habit; The original judgement -- Andre Breton and Philippe Soupault. From "Barriers" -- Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali. Scenario for l'age d'or -- Paul Eluard and Benjamin Peret. From 152 proverbs mis au gout du jour -- Renaud, Marianne Van Hirtum, Vincent Bounoure, Micheline Bounoure and Jean-Louis Bedouin. The dog: parallel story; Games and questionnaires -- Anonymous. Surrealist game; Answers to questionnaires; About Giorgio de Chirico's enigma of a day (Andre Breton, Rene Char, Paul Elard, Alberto Giacometti, Maurice Henry, Benjamin Peret, and Tristan Tzara); About Paris (Andre Breton, Paul Eluardm abd Tristan Tzara) -- |
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Trance event / Robert Desnos with Louis Aragon. Trance Event -- Dreams / Antonin Artaud. Dream -- Giorgio De Chirico. Dream -- Joseph Cornell. Some dreams, 1947-1969 -- Rene Crevel. I don't know how to cut it up -- Michel Leiris. The country of my dreams; Dream -- Paul Nougi. The dancer's story -- Chants and manifestoes / Anonymous. Address to the Pope. David Hare, Andre Breton, and Max Ernst. VVV -- Jacques Vache. [Manifesto of Umore] -- Source notes -- Index. History, Ar |
| Summary |
"In 1951 Robert Motherwell published a collection of writings called The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology. Conceived as a sequel to that volume, Surrealist Painters and Poets: An Anthology does for Surrealism what Motherwell's book did for Dadaism. The concept and contents were discussed with Robert Motherwell and met with his enthusiastic approval. The essays, manifestos, poems, and texts in this anthology offer a composite picture of the Surrealists-- their convictions, styles, and spirit--from the movement's beginnings in France just after World War I to its second flowering in America after World War II |
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The book includes writers and artists from Belgium, Chile, Czechoslovakia, Cuba, Egypt, England, France, Germany, Guyana, Italy, Martinique, Mauritius, Mexico, Spain, Switzerland, Senegal, Uruguay, and the United States. Caws's main criterion for inclusion was that the works be the best and most representative of the different forms of Surrealism. Among others, the artists and writers include André Breton, Marcel Duchamp and Rrose Sélavy, Max Ernst, Mina Loy, Francis Picabia, and Tristan Tzara." -- BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [517]-525) and index |
| Subject |
Surrealism.
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Surrealism (Literature)
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Artists' writings, French -- Translations into English.
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French poetry -- 20th century -- Translations into English.
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Surrealism -- France.
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Artists' writings.
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| Author |
Caws, Mary Ann.
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| LC no. |
00032888 |
| ISBN |
0262032759 hardcover alkaline paper |
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