History of the Surrealist movement / Gérard Durozoi ; translated by Alison Anderson.

History of the Surrealist movement / Gérard Durozoi ; translated by Alison Anderson.

Histoire du mouvement surréaliste. English

0226174123 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0226174115

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2002]

©2002

English

805 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

NX456.5.S8 D8713 2002

709/.04/063

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 twentieth century. Unlike other histories, which focus mainly on the pre-World War II years of the movement in Paris, Durozoi covers both 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 documentary and visual evidence--including 1,000 photos, many of them in color--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, Buñuel, Cocteau, Crevel, Dalí, 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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 767-791) and indexes.

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