Manifestoes of Surrealism

by AndrT Breton, Richard Seaver (Translator), Helen Lane (Translator)

Overview

Manifestoes of Surrealism is an essential text by André Breton, a French writer and poet, and co-founder of the Surrealist movement. This volume includes Breton’s 1924 surrealist manifesto, his second manifesto from 1930, and extracts from other letters and works. Drawing on Freudian psychoanalysis, dream logic, and automatic writing, Breton rejects rationalism and embraces the unconscious as a path to artistic and social liberation. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780472061822
Publisher:	University of Michigan Press
Publication date:	04/18/1969
Series:	Ann Arbor Paperbacks
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	5.38(w) x 8.00(h) x 1.10(d)

Table of Contents

CONTENTS
Preface for a Reprint of the Manifesto (1929) 
Manifesto of Surrealism (1924) 
Soluble Fish (1924) 
Preface for the New Edition of the Second Manifesto (1946) 
Second Manifesto of Surrealism (1930) 
A Letter to Seers (1925) 
Political Position of Surrealism (extracts) 
Preface (1935) 
Political Position of loday's Art (1935) 
Speech to the Congress of Writers (1935) 
On the lime When the Surrealists Were Right (1935) 
Surrealist Situation of the Object (1935) 
Prolegomena to a Third Surrealist Manifesto or Not (1942) 
On Surrealism In Its Living Works (1953) 

Editorial Reviews

…as rich, lively, and stimulatingly sensitive a book as the truly catholic lover of the arts could desire.”
- Publishers Weekly


“A magnificent translation of Breton’s collected pronunciamientos, 1924-53.”
- New Yorker

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