A Short Survey of Surrealism

by David Gascoyne

Overview

Gascoyne's membership of the Surrealist movement and his association with its leading members - among them Andre Breton, Paul Eluard, Max Ernst and Salvador Dali - placed him in an ideal position to witness and record the development and significance of its foremost artists and writers. A Short Survey of Surrealism is not merely a history of the birth and growth of the movement but also a thorough analysis of the main ideas associated with it.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780714622620
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/11/2004
Pages:	180
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

1. Ancestors of Surrealism 2. The Dadaist Attitude 3. The Period of Sleeping Fits 4. The First Manifesto 1924 5. The Second Manifesto 1929 6. Surrealism To-day and To-morrow

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