Author: Penelope Rosemont
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing
Keywords: surrealist, series, women, revolution
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 2000-12-01
List price: $80.00
ISBN-10: 0485300885
ISBN-13: 9780485300888

Penelope Rosemont has assembled nearly 300 texts by 96 women from 28 countries. She opens the book with a summary of surrealism’s basic aims and principles, followed by a discussion of the place of gender in the origins of the movement.

Author: Penelope Rosemont
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Keywords: surrealist, series, revolution, international, women, anthology
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 1998
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 029277088X
ISBN-13: 9780292770881

"This is a very fine volume; it is inclusive, superbly researched, and the introductions are clearly written. . . . It should become a standard text of surrealism." --Stephen Eric Bronner, Professor of Political Science and Comparative Literature, Rutgers University Beginning in Paris in the 1920s, women poets, essayists, painters, and artists in other media have actively collaborated in defining and refining surrealism’s basic project-achieving a higher, open, and dynamic consciousness, from which no aspect of the real or the imaginary is rejected. Indeed, few artistic or social

Authors:Franklin Rosemont, Robin D.G. Kelley,
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Keywords: surrealist, africa, diaspora, revolution, writings, black, amp, beige, brown
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2009-12-07
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0292719973
ISBN-13: 9780292719972

Surrealism as a movement has always resisted the efforts of critics to confine it to any static definition--surrealists themselves have always preferred to speak of it in terms of dynamics, dialectics, goals, and struggles. Accordingly, surrealist groups have always encouraged and exemplified the widest diversity--from its start the movement was emphatically opposed to racism and colonialism, and it embraced thinkers from every race and nation. Yet in the vast critical literature on surrealism, all but a few black poets have been invisible. Academic histories and anthologies typically, but v

Author: J. H. Matthews
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
Keywords: mind, surrealist
Number of Pages: 233
Published: 1991-01
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0945636067
ISBN-13: 9780945636069

Author: Gerard Durozoi
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: movement, surrealist, history
Number of Pages: 816
Published: 2004-10
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0226174123
ISBN-13: 9780226174129

"With its unprecedented depth and range, this massive new history of Surrealism from veteran French philosopher and art critic Durozoi will be the one-volume standard for years to come. . . . The book discusses expertly the main surrealist artists like Jean Arp, Max Ernst, René Magritte, Yves Tanguy, Salvador Dalí and Joan Miró, but also treats with considerable understanding the surrealist writing by Louis Aragon, Paul Eluard, Robert Desnos, Julien Graçq and, of course, the so-called ’Pope of Surrealism,’ André Breton. . . . This book should turn up in all serious collections

Author: Rudolf E. Kuenzli
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: film, surrealist, dada
Number of Pages: 254
Published: 1996-08-01
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 026261121X
ISBN-13: 9780262611213

"Kuenzli has done film studies a service by gathering some of the best minds in the fields reflecting on specific topics." -- Andrew Horton, Film Quarterly "A comprehensive, clear and factual presentation of the subject . . . very useful." -- Simonne Fischer, French Review This groundbreaking collection of thirteen original essays analyzes connections between film and two highly influential twentieth-century movements. The essays, which comment on specific films and deal with theoretical and topical questions, are framed by a documentary section that includes a photographic reproduction of the

Authors:Alastair Brotchie, Mel Gooding,
Publisher: Shambhala
Keywords: games, surrealist, book
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1995-07-04
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 1570620849
ISBN-13: 9781570620843

This delightful book opens up for everyone the unorthodox creative methods of the Surrealist school of artists and poets that flourished in Europe in the early 1900s. Outrageous language games, alternative card games, "Dream Lotto," and automatic techniques for making poems, stories, collages, and photomontages are accompanied by the art of Max Ernst, Hans Arp, and Tristan Tzara.