Il surrealismo e la pittura

by André Breton

"Pubblicato nel 1928, in un'epoca di fervida elaborazione e definizione del movimento surrealista, 'Le surréalisme et la peinture' costituisce la prima summa del pensiero di André Breton sulla pittura. Tra pagine liriche e passi polemici lo scrittore e poeta, capofila del movimento, delinea qui la complessa ed eterogenea ricerca che anima la fucina artistica surrealista in questa sua fase incipiente. Picasso, Max Ernst, Man Ray, Yves Tanguy, André Masson, Joan Mirò, Giorgio de Chirico, Hans Arp sono i principali protagonisti di questo saggio colto e pregnante, nella cui trama si intrecciano brani teorici, citazioni poetiche, réveries imperscrutabili, libere associazioni. In questo ricco florilegio Breton esprime le proprie impressioni e idee sottolineando non soltanto alcuni temi cruciali del surrealismo ma anche e soprattutto una concezione dell'arte anticonformista e fedele al modello interiore, all'esplorazione dell'inconscio e del sogno, all'obiettivo rivoluzionario. Le 'surréalisme et la peinture' rivela altresì le doti poetiche e letterarie di Breton e la sua particolare declinazione dell'ut pictura poèsis che attraverso preziosi espedienti linguistici e frequenti rimandi alla poesia rende così inconfondibili le sue pagine sulla pittura." (Dallo scritto di Angela Sanna)

Genres: Art, Essays, Nonfiction, France, Philosophy, Art History

Paperback

First published October 15, 1965

About the author

After World War I, French poet and literary theorist André Breton began to link at first with Dadaism but broke with that movement to write the first manifesto of surrealism in 1924.

People best know this theorist as the principal founder. His writings include the Surrealist Manifesto (Manifeste du surréalisme), in which he defined this "pure psychic automatism."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3...

Reviews

[Tosh · Rating 5 out of 5]

Andre Breton, yes was a kook, and sort of a social-like fascist, but beyond that he was a natural leader - and had a good sense what was good out there. He ran the Surrealist club like Stalin would may have over his kitchen, but Breton interests were wide and spectacular.

This was probably one of the first books I have ever had in my collection regarding a writer talking about the visual arts. My late father gave it to me, and it stikes me as an important art document. Breton was there when it happened, and basically had the taste and skill to discuss the artists - who were either associates of his (fellow Surrealists) or friends.

[jason · Rating 4 out of 5]

Art is a process of recording decisions. And is judged by opinions. I have no idea what to say about this book.

[George · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a beautifully produced book, containing wonderful essays on the visual art of the Surrealist movement.

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