Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 700.1 EAN: 9780472061822 ISBN: 0472061828 Label: University of Michigan Press Manufacturer: University of Michigan Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 316 Publication Date: June 15, 1969 Publisher: University of Michigan Press Sales Rank: 93574 Studio: University of Michigan Press
Presents the essential ideas of the founder of French surrealism
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Rating: - indispensable and of infinite importance to dreamers
It is hard to exaggerate the importance and the relevance of this book and the greatness of it's author, Andre Breton. Although a flawed and decidedly ambivalent man, Breton was the first out and out surrealist worthy of the name, seeking the spirit of magic and 'immanent transcendence' of a sort in the marvelous, a sense of mysticism and wonder in no way supernatural or otherworldly. Breton exhorts us to break the sterile and suffocating chains of rationalism and logic, and to realize the relativity of perspectives and perceptions of reality, thereby freeing both our intellect and the supreme weapon of the human mind, the imagination. The surrealist lifestyle is nothing if not a furious attempt at total liberation, and Breton knows that this cannot be said often enough. The mad, the imaginative, the dreamy and the alienated are true 'surrealists' and unwittingly live this defiant philosophy of rebellion through ... Read More
Rating: - Classic and Important Work
Breton's work is one of the seminal classics of twentieth century art and literature and deserves to be read, if for no other reason, purely for historical ones. However, the intersted historian will quickly be transported beyond the realm of antiquarian curiosity and into an embodied philosophy of life that profoundly critiques and challenges the status quo. In many ways, the critiques/alternatives offered by Breton and the surrealists are more desperately needed now in the beginning of the 21st century than they were in the beginning of the 20th.
As to the previous reviewers rather shallow critique, I can only say that Breton (still read in France as one of their major 20th c. poets) has written these as witty, playful, often beatiful sometimes even rambling texts. To call them terse is to either radically misuse the word or to lack an aesthetic sensibility, or perhaps both. As for the supposed rehashing ... Read More
Rating: - Go to a library....
Basically, if you can get past the terse text you will find a very, very out-dated system of thought. Andre Breton may have been revolutionary then, but now it is just a re-hash of an old, dilapitated art school that has nothing more to say.
Rating: - A timeless triumph of the Surrealist spirit
"Manifestoes of Surrealism" is an extraordinary book that defines the timeless vitality of the Surrealist spirit. Speaking as a supreme oracle of Surrealist enlightenment, Breton gives us the keys to freedom from the limitations of reason, morality and aesthetic concerns. He instructs us on how to become a total Surrealist that no censorship or logic will ever stop. The texts in this volume take us into a realm where all taboos become taboo, where it is forbidden to forbid. Surrealism is defined not merely as a literary, artistic or philosophical movement, but as an explosion of the social order and a transformation of life itself. The opening section of the book is the original "Manifesto of Surrealism" from 1924. This text is the earliest formulation of the essence of the classical Surrealist spirit in its purest form. The next section, entitled "Soluble Fish," makes use of automatic writing and shows that ... Read More
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- indispensable and of infinite importance to dreamers
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