Surrealist Painters and Poets: An Anthology

Caws, Mary Ann

ISBN 10: 0262032759 / ISBN 13: 9780262032759

Edité par Mit Press, 2001

A propos de cet article

Black cloth, large octavo. 330 pages. Notes, index. Over 100 black and white illustrations. Fine copy in a fine dust jacket in a mylar protector. Shipped in box.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Surrealist Painters and Poets: An Anthology
• Éditeur: Mit Press
• Date de parution: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0262032759
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780262032759
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine

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Synopsis

Art and writings by Surrealist painters and poets from a wide range of countries.

In 1951 Robert Motherwell published a collection of writings called The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology. Conceived as a sequel to that volume, Surrealist Painters and Poets: An Anthology does for Surrealism what Motherwell's book did for Dadaism. The concept and contents were discussed with Robert Motherwell and met with his enthusiastic approval.

The essays, manifestos, poems, and texts in this anthology offer a composite picture of the Surrealists—their convictions, styles, and spirit—from the movement's beginnings in France just after World War I to its second flowering in America after World War II. The book includes writers and artists from Belgium, Chile, Czechoslovakia, Cuba, Egypt, England, France, Germany, Guyana, Italy, Martinique, Mauritius, Mexico, Spain, Switzerland, Senegal, Uruguay, and the United States. Caws's main criterion for inclusion was that the works be the best and most representative of the different forms of Surrealism. Among others, the artists and writers include Andre Breton, Marcel Duchamp and Rrose Selavy, Max Ernst, Mina Loy, Francis Picabia, and Tristan Tzara.

À propos de l?auteur

Mary Ann Caws, an art historian, literary critic, and translator, is Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature in the Graduate School of the City University of New York. She is the author, editor, or translator of more than forty books in the fields of poetry and the avant-garde.