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Revolution of the Mind: The Life of André Breton

By Mark Polizzotti

Book information

Publisher
Black Widow Press
Year
2009
ISBN
0979513782, 9780979513787
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4110452 bytes)
Edition
Revised
Pages
680\705
Time added
2018-02-23 16:54:55
History;André Breton

Description

Aptly described by playwright Eugene Ionesco as "one of the four or five great reformers of modern thought", André Breton (1896-1966) was the founder and prime mover of Surrealism, the most influential artistic and literary movement of the 20th century. Poet and theorist, artistic impresario and political agitator, Breton was a man of paradoxical character: inspiring one moment, crushingly tyrannical the next; embracing friends like Brunuel, Dali, Duchamp, Miro, Man Ray, Aragon and Eluard, only to exile them as enemies later. From its emergence from Dada after World War I through its culmination in the 1960s, here is the Surrealist world in detail.

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