A Short Survey of Surrealism

by David Gascoyne, Dawn Ades (Preface by)

Overview

Reprint of the 1935 edition of a study that balances the different manifestations of surrealism in order to see it whole, not just as an art movement backed up by ideas. Gascoyne (author, translator, and early champion of surrealism) also includes the movement's ancestors, such as Dada. Part history, part manifesto, part critique, the discussion reveals the internal trajectory of a movement that was never still or monolithic. Concludes with translations of ten poems. Distributed by Dufour Editions. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781900564663
Publisher:	Enitharmon Press
Publication date:	10/01/2000
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.50(d)

Table of Contents

	Preface	9
	The Entrance of the Medium	13
	Introduction	23
Chapter I	Ancestors of Surrealism	27
Chapter II	The Dadaist Attitude	37
Chapter III	The Period of Sleeping-Fits	48
Chapter IV	The First Manifesto 1924	55
Chapter V	The Second Manifesto 1929	69
Chapter VI	Surrealism Today and Tomorrow	91
	Translations
	'On the Saint-Genevieve Mountain ...'	99
	The Spectral Attitudes	100
	Three Poems	102
	Fatal Sleep	103
	Love and Memory (Fragment)	104
	'At the End of a Long Voyage ...'	106
	What the Workman Says is Never to the Point	108
	Poem	110
	Three Poems	112
	The Approximate Man (Fragment)	114
	Force of Habit	119
Appendix 1	Illustrations in 1935 edition	121
Appendix 2	Back cover of 1935 edition	122
	Index	123

Editorial Reviews

This is a new edition of David Gascoyne's rightly celebrated and precocious, work of 1935, published when he was just nineteen...A Short History of Surrealism first established Gascoyne's reputation in literary circles in London; it also stands as a historical witness to an intellectual era which can seem increasingly remote in a post-Communist, technologically driven world.
—Times Literary Supplement

Hilary Davies