In the first full-length biography in English of Andre Breton, the founder and prime theorist of the French Surrealist movement, Mark Polizzotti reveals the intellectual, artistic and personal life of one of our century's most influential and charismatic cultural figures, a man whom Eugene Ionesco dubbed one of the four or five great reformers of modern thought. This definitive work traces Breton's artistic career, from his participation in the Paris Dada group in the 1920s, through his seminal experiments with automatic ...
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In the first full-length biography in English of Andre Breton, the founder and prime theorist of the French Surrealist movement, Mark Polizzotti reveals the intellectual, artistic and personal life of one of our century's most influential and charismatic cultural figures, a man whom Eugene Ionesco dubbed one of the four or five great reformers of modern thought. This definitive work traces Breton's artistic career, from his participation in the Paris Dada group in the 1920s, through his seminal experiments with automatic writings and induced slumbers, to the development of Surrealism proper and the literary, aesthetic, social, and political successes and scandals of that most influential modernist movement. Polizzotti reconstructs Breton's intense and formative friendships with Man Ray, Duchamp, Dali, and Miro, among others; his legendary encounters with Trotsky, Freud, and Sartre; and his several marriages and love affairs.
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Very Good in Good jacket. Art. XL. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Previous owner's inscription inside. Wear and small tears to dust jacket. 754 pages.
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Very Good. Size: 6x2x9; 1st edition 1st printing-slight ding to top cover corner-slight wear to edge of dust jacket-otherwise dust jacket and cover fine binding strong contents clean-enjoy.
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VG-/VG (Ex-art library, with spine label, i.d. marks on book block edges and outermost pages, incl. rear pocket; lightly aged and used. ) Black cloth, gilt letters on spine, tan and black and pink and illus. dust jacket in mylar cover; 754 pp., BW illus. "The first full-length biography in English of Andre Breton [1896-1966], the founder and prime theorist of the French Surrealist movement....Reveals the intellectual, artistic, and personal life of one of our century's most influential and charismatic cultural figures, a man whom Eugene Ionesco dubbed 'one of the four or five great reformers of modern thought. '" (dj).
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Good in Good jacket. Book Unclipped jacket with some water damage along the bottom edge. Front board has water spotting. Spotting on textbox edge. Text clean, unmarked.
