Main entry:

Durozoi, Gérard.

Title & Author:

History of the Surrealist movement / Gérard Durozoi ; translated by Alison Anderson.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2002.

Description:

805 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Translation of: Histoire du mouvement surréaliste.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 767-791) and indexes.
1. 1919-1924 : "Get ready for some fine explosions ... ": -- Littérature -- From Jacques Vachéto Tristan Tzara -- Picabia enters the scene -- Dada in Paris -- 1920: The first glorious feats -- Ambiguous recognition -- 1921: New offensives -- The first Max Ernst Exhibition in Paris -- The Barrès Trial -- The arrival of Man Ray -- Failure of the "Paris Conference" -- Littérature at a distance from Dada -- Sleeping fits -- Which meeting, and for which friends? -- Last dadaist fireworks -- Tension and waiting -- 2. 1924-1929 : Salvation for us is nowhere: -- The surrealist manifesto -- A cadaver -- La Révolution surréaliste -- Artaud's influence -- Homage to Saint-Pol Roux -- Affirmation of Pictorial Surrealism: priority to Picasso -- De Chirico -- Ernst, Man Ray, masson -- Miró -- The surrealist gallery and publications -- Yves Tanguy, Jean Arp -- The political question -- La Guerre civile -- Pierre Naville: Légitime défense -- Disappointing enrollment in the Communist Party -- In Belgium -- Magritte -- Love -- The struggle against dominant values -- Surrealist Paris -- Meeting at the rue du Château -- "Surrealism in 1929" -- The discovery of Dalí; Ernst's Romans-collages -- 3. 1929-1937 : "Elephants are contagious": -- The second Surrealist Manifesto -- Shared writing -- Surrealism at the service of the revolution -- "La Peinture au défi" -- l'Âge d'or -- Dalí and the paranoiac-critical -- Anticolonial struggle -- Surrealist objects -- The Aragon affair -- The ARAR: political collaboration and autonomous research -- Minotaure -- The supremacy of Picasso -- Political initiatives in 1934 -- New propositions -- In Belgium -- Internationalization -- Break with the AEAR -- Contre-Attaque -- The London International Surrealist Exhibition -- Impact of the Spanish Civil War -- The Moscow "Trials" -- The Galerie Gradiva -- "The guaranteed surrealist postcard" -- Japan -- Recognition to Jarry -- 4. 1938-1944 : "During the Sordid years": -- The concise dictionary of Surrealism -- Criticism and its clichés -- Breton in Mexico -- For an Independent Revolutionary Art -- Constitution and the failure of the FIARI -- Trajectoire du rêve -- Nicolas Calas : Foyers d'incendie -- Dreams in the news -- News from Mexico -- Latest trends in Surrealist painting -- Going beyond the three dimensions -- International exhibition in Mexico City -- Marseille -- The permanence and pertinence of black humor -- The antilles -- New York -- VVV -- The problematic of the myth : The great transparencies -- First papers of Surrealism -- Art of this century : the beginnings of abstract expressionism -- Arshile Gorky -- Péret takes the floor -- Tensions -- Latin America -- In France -- La Main à Plume -- In England -- In Belgium -- 5. 1944-1951 : "Freedom, my only pirate": -- The Salon d'Automne -- Le Déshonneur des poètes -- Dialectic of dialectics -- For a lack of anything better -- An exhibition in Brussels -- Breton's return -- Politics at a distance -- Surrealism in 1947 -- The war years in Czechoslovakia -- néon -- Internationalist policy -- À la niche les glapisseurs de Dieu! -- The automatists -- Art Brut -- Surrealist solution(s) -- Alamanach surréaliste du demi-siècle -- 6. 1951-1959 : "Commitment, that ignoble word": -- The Carrouges Affair -- Julien Gracq Refuses the Prix Goncourt -- Film enthusiasts -- Different places to speak out -- Le Libertaire's "Billets surréalistes" -- Camus and rebellion -- Offensive against Socialist Realism -- Diffusion or disappearance? -- New artistic ideas -- Charles Estienne's contributions -- "Phases" : group and periodical -- From Gallic art to magic art -- Among the "classics" -- Médium; le surréalisme, même; bief -- Political vigilance.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

Tracing the movement from its origins in the 1920s to its decline in the 1950s and 1960s, Durozoi tells the history of Surrealism through its activities, publications, and reviews, demonstrating its close ties to some of the most explosive political, as well as creative, debates of the twentieth century. Unlike other histories, which focus mainly on the pre-World War II years of the movement in Paris, Durozoi covers both a wider chronological and geographic range, treating in detail the postwar years and Surrealism's colonization of Latin America, the United States, Japan, Czechoslovakia, Belgium, Italy, and North Africa. Drawing on documentary and visual evidence--including 1,000 photos, many of them in color--he illuminates all the intellectual and artistic aspects of the movement, from literature and philosophy to painting, photography, and film. All the Surrealist stars and their most important works are here--Aragon, Borges, Breton, Buñuel, Cocteau, Crevel, Dalí, Desnos, Ernst, Man Ray, Soupault, and many more--for all of whom Durozoi has provided brief biographical notes in addition to featuring them in the main text.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0226174115
9780226174112
0226174123
9780226174129

Subject:

Surrealism History.
Arts, Modern 20th century.
Arts, Modern.
Surréalisme Histoire.
Arts 20e siècle.
Surrealism.
Surrealismus
Beeldende kunsten.
Surrealisme.
Art, Modern 20th century
Frankreich

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 222492
Call No.: NX456.5.S8 D8 2002
Status: Available