Ebook: The milk bowl of feathers: essential surrealist writings
Author: Caws Mary Ann
- Tags: French literature, French literature--20th century, Surrealism, Surrealism--France, Surrealism (Literature), Surrealism (Literature)--France, Surrealism (Literature) -- France, Surrealism -- France, French literature -- 20th century, France
- Year: 2018
- Publisher: New Directions Publishing
- City: France
- Edition: First edition
- Language: English
- epub
An exciting new collection of the essential writings of surrealism, the European avant-garde movement of the mind's deepest powers
Originating in 1916 with the avant-garde Dada movement at the famous Café Voltaire in Zurich, surrealism aimed to unleash the powers of the creative act without thinking. Max Ernst, André Breton, Tristan Tzara, Paul Éluard, Philippe Soupault, and Louis Aragon created a movement that spread wildly to all corners of the globe, inspiring not only poetry but also artists like Joan Miro and René Magritte and cinematic works by Antonin Artaud, Luis Bunuel, and Salvador Dalí. As the editor, Mary Ann Caws, says, "Essential to surrealist behavior is a constant state of openness, of readiness for whatever occurs, whatever marvelous object we might come across, manifesting itself against the already thought, the already lived."Here are the gems of this major, mind-bending aesthetic, political, and humane...
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