The Eye of the Poet: André Breton and the Visual Arts
Autor Elza Adamowiczen Limba Engleză Hardback – 17 oct 2022
This is the first comprehensive study in English of surrealist leader André Breton’s lifelong commitment to the visual arts. As an essayist, art critic, collector, gallery director, and artist, he actively promoted many painters, from turn-of-the-century Moreau and outsider artists to fellow surrealists like Ernst and Masson.
The book tracks both the development of Breton’s surrealist aesthetics within the Parisian avant-garde art scene and the centrality of art to his political agenda. It also highlights Breton the collector and collagist—the works he displayed in his Paris apartment, ranging from Oceanic masks to African sculptures, paintings to pebbles, are themselves seen as an ever-changing assemblage.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781789145311
ISBN-10: 1789145317
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 50 color plates, 97 halftones
Dimensiuni: 191 x 248 x 28 mm
Greutate: 1.11 kg
Editura: REAKTION BOOKS
Colecția Reaktion Books
ISBN-10: 1789145317
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 50 color plates, 97 halftones
Dimensiuni: 191 x 248 x 28 mm
Greutate: 1.11 kg
Editura: REAKTION BOOKS
Colecția Reaktion Books
Notă biografică
Elza Adamowicz is professor emerita of French literature and visual culture at the Queen Mary University of London. Among her numerous studies on the European avant-garde, she is the author of Dada Bodies: Between Battlefield and Fairground.
Recenzii
"An engaging, informed, often shrewd introduction to a central figure of twentieth-century thought. Though Adamowicz focuses mainly on Breton’s multifaceted relationship with the visual arts, her discussion embraces many of the dimensions—political, literary, social, philosophical—that make Surrealism, still today, among the most vibrant and relevant approaches to life in all its complexity."
“An excellent overview of André Breton as the leader of the surrealist movement as a collective experiment with writing and visual art in equal measure that dominated the avant-garde in the twentieth century. This book should become an essential reference for anyone interested in surrealism.”
"Perceptive and highly engaging, The Eye of the Poet reveals André Breton in his many guises: as a brilliant writer, theorist, and polemicist, as the Surrealists’ charismatic and pugnacious leader, as an astute art collector and ethnographer, and as an artist in his own right. Adamowicz’s compelling narrative confirms the enduring fascination that Breton commands as Surrealism approaches its first century."
“This book manages to be both concise and comprehensive, giving the reader an excellent sense of the scope, variety, and contradictions of Breton’s interactions with artists, art practices, and artworks. Though informed by a deep and detailed scholarly background in the field, it is a lively and engaging read, offering a new perspective on both Breton himself and the vagaries of the visual arts as a category of surrealist activity.”