Ebook {Epub PDF} André Breton: Selections by André Breton

Summary of André Breton. André Breton was an original member of the Dada group who went on to start and lead the Surrealist movement in In New York, Breton and his colleagues curated Surrealist exhibitions that introduced ideas of automatism and intuitive art making to the first Abstract bltadwin.ru worked in various creative media, focusing on collage and printmaking as well as. Founder of the Surrealist movement, André Breton has also come to be recognized as one of the twentieth century's most innovative and influential poets. The inaugural volume in the Poets for the Millennium series, André Breton offers the most comprehensive selection available in English of Breton's poetry, along with a selection of his major prose writings/5. The inaugural volume in the Poets for the Millennium series, Andrand#; Breton offers the most comprehensive selection available in English of Breton's poetry, along with a selection of his major prose writings. The translations, a number of which are published here for the first time, are by some of the most notable poets in our language, including David Antin, Paul Auster, Samuel Beckett, Michael .

Andre Breton was born in Normandy, France on 19, and died on Septem. Breton was a poet, novelist, philosophical essayist, and art critic. He is considered to be the father of surrealism. From World War I to the s, Breton was at the forefront of the numerous avant-garde activities that centered in Paris. André Breton was a French writer, poet, and surrealist theorist, and is best known as the principal founder of Surrealism. His writings include the Surrealist Manifesto (Manifeste du surréalisme) of , in which he defined surrealism as "pure psychic automatism". 3. André Breton, who studied medicine, was one of the first defenders of Freud in France. Breton would derive a new form of poetry—automatic writing—from the Freudian technique of spontaneous association, and unveil it in his book, The Magnetic Fields, written in collaboration with Phillipe Soupault. [21].

The inaugural volume in the Poets for the Millennium series, André Breton offers the most comprehensive selection available in English of Breton's poetry, along with a selection of his major prose writings. The translations, a number of which are published here for the first time, are by some of the most notable poets in our language, including David Antin, Paul Auster, Samuel Beckett, Michael Benedikt, Robert Duncan, David Gascoyne, and Charles Simic. The item André Breton: selections, André Breton ; edited and with an introduction by Mark Polizzotti represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri Libraries. This shapely introduction to the life and work of André Breton is smart, concise, and exciting. I cannot imagine a better one."—Ron Padgett, poet and translator of The Complete Poems of Blaise Cendrars"The Poets for the Millennium Series generally and André Breton's Selected Works specifically offers a workable image of an author and the.