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Breton, André, 1896-1966

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1896-02-18 - 1966-09-28

Found in 185 Collections and/or Records:

Shredding the Tapestry of Meaning: The Poetry and Poetics of Kitasono Katue / Solt, John ; Apollinaire G ; Artaud A ; Breton A ; Creeley R ; DeCampos A ; DeCampos H ; Gomringer E ; Mallarme S ; Olson C ; Perloff M ; Pignatari D ; Kitasono K ; Kyojiro H ; Pound E., 1999

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Identifier: CC-47199-49942
Scope and Contents Using Kitasono as a window on Japanese literature in the twentieth century, John Solt analyzes the relationship of Japanese writers to foreign literary movements and the influences of Japanese writers on world literature. He also provides a critical analysis of Kitasono's poetic working methods with several translations of poems written in Japanese to English. He mentions that in the late 1920s, Katue published "Collection of White Poems" that was translated by Solt. This is a constellation long before Gomringer declared this form, concrete poetry, e.g. white residence - white table - pink noblelady - white distant view - blue sky, etc. Solt records the following. "Other Western poets took notice of the VOU translations. High praise came from Hugh Gordon Porteus, who wrote in Criterion in 1939, "The most fruitful experiments with language are likely to continue to emerge from those who concern themselves with images and their relations, rather than with idle wordspinning. Nothing...
Dates: 1999

Storia Disinvolta del Surrealismo / Dupuis, Jules-Francois ; Breton A ; Tzara T ; Picabia F ; Peret B ; Ray M ; Aragon L ; Artaud A ; Magritte R., 1996

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Identifier: CC-27756-28878
Scope and Contents

The author's name is a pseudonym of an important protagonist of the May 1968 revolution in Paris. The book was first published in French by Editions Paul Vermont in 1977. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Surreal Lives: The Surrealists 1917 - 1945 / Brandon, Ruth ; Apollinaire G ; Aragon L ; Arp H ; Ball H ; Breton A ; Crevel R ; Desnos R ; Duchamp M ; Eluard P ; Jarry A ; Magritte R ; Picabia F ; Ray M ; Ribemont-Dessaignes G ; Queneau R ; Soupault P ; Tzara T., 1999

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Identifier: CC-34906-36618
Scope and Contents

This is an exceptionally well researched and presented book on the Surrealists with emphasis on their personal relationships and their political flirtation with Communism. The first part of the book emphasizes the poetic beginnnings of Surrealism, the second part the visual counterparts as exemplified by the paintings by Salvador Dali and the films by Luis Bunuel. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Surrealism under Pressure 1938-1953 [Edited by Jindrich Toman & Matthew S. Witkovsky] / Toman, Jindrich ; Witkovsky, Matthew S. ; Heisler, Jindrich ; Toyen ; Breton A., 2012

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Identifier: CC-55646-9999247
Scope and Contents This book was given to the Sackners by Jindrich Toman, a cousin of a friend of the Sackners, Robert Bovet.Book Descrption: "Czech poet and photographer Jindrich Heisler (1914--1953) joined the Czech Surrealist Group in 1938, just as Nazi occupation of the country was driving the movement and Czech artists underground. Heisler published his first book of poetry a year later. In his brief and courageous career"”Heisler died suddenly at the age of thirty-eight"”he produced some of the most remarkable assemblage work of the Surrealist movement, including what is arguably the single-most important photobook produced in the 20th century, From the Strongholds of Sleep (1940-41).This gorgeously illustrated volume"”with eighty color images of Heisler's assemblage pieces"”introduces English-speaking audiences to his work, translating many of his writings for the first time and offering in-depth analysis of his postwar years in Paris in the company of Andre Breton, Benjamin Peret, the...
Dates: 2012

Surrealismo Surrealistas, 1983

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Identifier: CC-21467-21878