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Surrealism and Painting

Door André Breton

Categorie
Algemeen Kunst
Boeknummer
#371610-KI12
Titel
Surrealism and Painting
Auteur
Breton, André
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
Boston, MA : MFA Publications
Jaar van uitgave
2002
ISBN10
0878466282
ISBN13
9780878466283
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, numerous illustrations in b/w, 4to.
Samenvatting
Originally published in 1928, Surrealism and Painting is the most important statement ever written on surrealist art, and the only book on the subject composed by the movement's founder and prime theorist. It contains Breton's seminal treatise on the origins and foundations of artistic surrealism, with his trenchant assessments of its precursors and practitioners, and his call for the plastic arts to "refer to a purely internal model." Also included are essays - on Picasso, Duchamp, Dali, Ernst, Masson, Miro, and many others, as well as pieces on Gaulish art, outsider art, and the folk arts of Haiti and Oceania. But what makes this book most compelling is Breton's mix of rigorous erudition and visceral passion, his sense of adventure, and his discoveries of many of Modernism's mo... (Lees verder)st prominent figures early in their careers. Long unavailable in English, Surrealism and Painting remains one of the masterworks of twentieth-century art criticism.
Pagina's
394
Conditie
Goed — Name on verso cover.
Prijs
€ 50,00

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