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André Breton: Surrealism and Painting
Andre Breton, Alain Masson, Joan Miro, Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Rene Magritte, Pablo Picasso, Yves Tanguy, Francis Picabia, Max Ernst, André Breton
MFA Publications
MFA Publications
Originally published in 1928 and augmented throughout the author's life, Surrealism and Painting is the single most important statement ever written on Surrealist art. While many pages have been devoted to visual Surrealism, this is the only book on...
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Constellations of Miro, Breton
Paul Hammond
City Lights Publishers
City Lights Publishers
During the early days of the Second World War, the Cataln painter Joan Mir created a startling series of twenty-three gouaches, his Constellations, works redolent with the nightmare of contemporary events. In 1958 the French poet Andr Breton...
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The Message: Art and Occultism
Claudia Dichter, Andre Breton, Andreas Fischer
Walther Konig
Walther Konig
Occult practices, seances and magic have traditionally been met with suspicion in the world of high culture, but they are currently getting a fresh look. Turns out, they have long had a quiet influence on art--at least since the mid-1800s. The...
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Andre Breton: Dossier Dada
Andre Breton, Raimund Meyer
Hatje Cantz Publishers
Hatje Cantz Publishers
To the Dadaists, a successful provocation had little meaning in itself. Content was less important than audience reaction. And what really consummated a Dada event was indignant commentary in the press--so much so that some legendary works occurred...
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Drawing From The Modern
Andre Breton, Paul Gauguin, Georges Bataille, Jodi Hauptman, Hans Bellmer, Constantin Brancusi, Paul Cezanne, Marc Chagall, Giorgio De Chirico, Robert Delaunay, Andre Derain, Arthur Dove, Alexandra Alexandrovna Exter, Arshile Gorky, Juan Gris, Gustav Klimt, Wilfredo Lam, Filippo Marinetti, Joan Miro
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Many of the key achievements in art of the last 125 years have been worked out on paper. From pictorial investigations that expanded the possibilities of vision to the invention of entirely new kinds of media, drawing has been the perfect laboratory...
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What Is Surrealism?: Selected Writings
Andre Breton
Pathfinder Press (NY)
Pathfinder Press (NY)
Writings of the best-known leader of the Surrealist movement in literature and the arts. Includes a facsimile reproduction of the 1942 Surrealist Album by André Breton. Index, Glossary, Annotation
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