The surrealism reader : an anthology of ideas /

The surrealism reader : an anthology of ideas /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Ades, Dawn (Editor), Richardson, Michael, 1953- (Editor, Translator), Fijałkowski, Krzysztof (Editor, Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Surrealism > Philosophy.
Surrealism (Literature) > Philosophy.
Table of Contents:
  • The annihilation of self-identity
  • Introduction
  • Being and its reflections / Jacques Hérold
  • The haunting / André Breton
  • Preface in praise of popular prejudices / Pierre Mabille
  • The noble mannequin seeks and finds her skin / René Crevel
  • The light, the shadow and the prey / Paul Nougé
  • Mirrors / Pierre Mabille
  • The "caput mortuum" or the alchemist's wife / Michae Leiris
  • Non-scientific treatise on the fourth dimension / Marcel Marien
  • What is a woman? / Leonora Carrington
  • Leave everything / Annie Le Brun
  • Memory of the last / Vincent Bounoure
  • You always cherish your failures, machine-man / Bernard Caburet
  • The challenge of otherness
  • Introduction
  • Pamphlet against Jerusalem / Robert Desnos
  • The universal bases of culture / Antonin Artaud
  • Don't clutter up the colonies (fragments); Approaching the enchanted castle / Jacques Viot
  • The patriotism of the unconscious / René Crevel
  • Ruins: ruine de ruines / Benjamin Péret
  • The nocturnal island / The Bucharest Surrealist Group
  • The friendship of man and beast / Georges Bataille
  • Cat=clover / Jacqueline Sénard-Duprey
  • Embers in Ceridwen's cauldron / André Breton
  • Light of life / Benjamin Péret
  • The twilight of the wheeler-dealers / Robert Benayoun
  • The passage from poetry to philosophy / René Ménil
  • A creolism sewn with white thread / Annie Le Brun
  • The exit from Egypt / René Alleau
  • The moral imperative
  • Introduction
  • It's up to you / Louis Aragon
  • Note on freedom / Louis Aragon
  • Humour as a moral attitude / Marko Ristić
  • Love of revolution in our time / Nicolas Calas
  • Liberty versus liberation / André Breton
  • Reflections on the executioner and the victim / Georges Bataille
  • Is surrealism a philosophy? / Gérard Legrand
  • Freedom as nostalgia and as project / Georges Henein
  • The hidden being / Elisabeth Lenk
  • Festival mood / Philippe Audoin
  • Paradise / PIerre Mabille
  • The tasks of art and poetry
  • Introduction
  • Notes on poetry / André Breton and Paul Éluard
  • The social anarchy of art / Antonin Artaud
  • The rotting donkey / Salvador Dalí
  • Specification of poetry / Roger Caillois
  • Essay on the situation of poetry / Tristan Tzara
  • Inviolable images / Paul Nougé
  • Systematisation and determination / Roger Caillois
  • The subversive function of poetry / Georges Henein
  • On surrealist semiology / Karel Teige
  • The sense of the world / René Magritte
  • Automatic perspective / Adrien Dax
  • Notes on poetry / Paul Nougé
  • Surrealism and the savage heart / Vincent Bounoure
  • Magic art and revolution / Vincent Bounoure and Vratislav Effenberger
  • On the utilitarian conception of language / Vratislav Effenberger.