From Dada to the Automatists, and from Max Ernst to Andre Breton,
Gerard Durozoi provides the most comprehensive and fascinating
history of the Surrealist movement to date. Tracing the movement
from its origins in the 1920s to its decline in the 1950s and
1960s, Durozoi tells the history of Surrealism through its
activities, publications and reviews, demonstrating its close ties
to some of the most explosive political, as well as creative,
debates of the 20th century. Unlike other histories, which focus
mainly on the pre-World War II years of the movement in Paris,
Durozoi covers a wider chronological and geographic range, treating
in detail the postwar years and Surrealism's colonization of Latin
America, the United States, Japan, Czechoslovakia, Belgium, Italy
and North Africa. Drawing on a staggering amount of documentary and
visual evidence - including more than 1,000 illustrations, many of
them in colour - he illuminates all the intellectual and artistic
aspects of the movement, from literature and philosophy to
painting, photography and film. All the Surrealist stars and their
most important works are here - Aragon, Borges, Breton, Bunuel,
Cocteau, Crevel, Dali, Desnos, Ernst, Man Ray, Soupault and many
more - for all of whom Durozoi has provided brief biographical
notes in addition to featuring them in the main text. For anyone
who wants to know more about practically any aspect of Surrealism,
from its vexed relations with communism to its exquisite corpses,
Durozoi's "History of the Surrealist Movement" should be a valuable
reference.
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