Surrealist Painters and Poets: An Anthology
In 1951 Robert Motherwell published a collection of writings called The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology. Conceived as a sequel to that volume, Surrealist Painters and Poets: An Anthology does for Surrealism what Motherwell's book did for Dadaism. The concept and contents were discussed with Robert Motherwell and met with his enthusiastic approval.The essays, manifestos,poems, and texts in this anthology offer a composite picture of the Surrealists — their convictions, styles, and spirit...
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Art and writings by Surrealist painters and poets from a wide range of countries.Publishers WeeklyWhile the lessons of surrealism have been pretty well assimilated by contemporary artists, the encyclopedic inclusivity of this selection, along with its global perspective and attention to women artists, provides plenty of surprises and new perspectives on this unconscious-driven movement. Renowned scholar and translator of French modernism Caws (The Eye of the Text, etc.), whose anthology Manifesto: A Century of Isms has just appeared (Forecasts, Feb. 19), makes her first, necessary act here to ignore what the rather dictatorial Andr Bretonfounder, primary theorist and tireless proselyte of the movementdeemed "surrealist" in his time, and to include work that is not just "automatic writing" or collaborative in nature, the two types of writing Breton championed most. Memoirs, poems, fables, manifestos, games and collaborative works, as well as photomontages, paintings, drawings and odd, scandalous objects, are included by artists well-known and not: Giorgio de Chirico, Man Ray, Philippe Soupault, Hans Bellmer, Kay Boyle, the founders of "negritude" Aim C saire and L opold S dar Senghor, Salvador Dal , Duchamp, Frida Kahlo, Michel Leiris, the underrecognized painter Dorothea Tanning (wife of Max Ernst), Mina Loy, Antonin Artaud, Leonora Carrington and Joseph Cornell make their appearances among many others. Because it leans more toward the painterlyi.e., imagistic and spasmodically creativeside of the movement and less toward the exacting political and philosophical side, the book can seem unfocused, and the lack of scholarly material, such as chronologies or biographic introductions, may leave one in the dark about the minor figures and how they fit in. But Caws's goal (as with Manifesto) is to present an active constellation of work beyond the canonizing and historicizing of the academy, placing the work back in the lap of the creative reader, in the here and now of the culture today. On that level, this anthology succeeds richly. (May) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
Preface: Surrealist GatheringAcknowledgmentsAm I A Surrealist?3Remembering Jacqueline Remembering Andre7The Journey Is Done21From The Memoirs of Giorgio de Chirico25Lifeline33From Self-Portrait41Painting Is a Wager47Hymn to Liberty51Automatic Drawing59Oneirocriticism63From Paris Peasant67From The Fate of La Fontaine77Notes from a Diary85The Folly Stone91The Shell and the Clergyman: Film Scenario95The Mountain of Signs101From "Van Gogh: The Man Suicided by Society"103The Absence of Myth111From "What Oozed through the Staircase"115The Anti-Plato117A Complaint for M and M121On the Fantastic: In Painting123Age127Unclean Night127The Sexual Eagle Exults128Less Time129Lethal Relief129The Verb To Be130Vigilance131Dreaming I See You132Ascendant Sign134Dear Hazel of Squirrelnut137I Am Still Waiting (Answer to Questionnaire: "What Was the Most Important Encounter of Your Life?")143The House of Fear145Uncle Sam Carrington148Serpent Sun153The Automatic Crystal153The Virgin Forest154Sentence154Breaking with the Dead Sea155The Domain of the Marvelous157Artine159From Moulin premier (First Mill)161From Sens plastique163From "Notes"169From Babylon175Every One Thinks Himself Phoenix ...177The Stinking Ass179The Great Masturbator183No One Remembers185From Deuil pour deuil (Mourning for Mourning)187Oh Pangs of Love!190I Have So Often Dreamed of You190Sleep Spaces191If You Knew193No, Love Is Not Dead194Obsession196Three Stars197From La Liberte ou l'amour! (Freedom or Love!)197The Bride201Nothing on Earth205Cafe du Dome207X-Ray207Lady Love209Second Nature209The Queen of Diamonds212Identities213The Victory at Guernica215Dawn217From Nuits partagees (Shared Nights)217The Hundred-Headless Woman219Kafka or "The Secret Society"225Poem in Seven Spaces227The Brown Curtain228Grass Coal228Yesterday, the Quicksands229Ross' Barrier231Healthy Remedies233From King Gordogain235Letter to Jacqueline Lamba239From "Chant III"241Twelfth Ring245About Fashion249From the Heart to the Absolute253In the Heat of Inspiration259Oh Marcel ... Otherwise I Also Have Been to Louise's263Auto-Facial-Construction266The Realm of the Marvelous269The Destruction of the World270Continuous Experience275The Passageway of Judiciary Pleasures279The Vices of Men285They Have Weighed285From "Pericoloso Sporgersi"285Your Figure or the War against Fat287Psychological Aspects of the Fourth Dimension289The Bed of Plato297Sensitive Mathematics - The Architecture of Time299Colors of Childhood, Colors of Blood301Poem303Harlequin's Carnival305Each Speck of Dust305Nothing308Sketch of the Human Body309My Friend's Dog317Round the World317Without Me Anyway321Finally321The Volcano-Pyramid: A Mythological Hypothesis Suggested By the Appearance of a New Volcano323May - 1941327Listen331Where Are You333One to One333The Four Elements338Aphorisms345In the Corner a Violet Sword347Give and Take Twist and Kill349The Wool Dress351Surprises355Dream355The Rainbow356Interjections356Despair357From Lord Patchogue359Life and Death of the Amorous Umbrella363Bertha, the Child-Flower367Quadrangle369Priimiitiitiii373Lanke Tr Gl (skerzoo aux meiner soonate in uurlauten)373Paolo Uccello375Entries in a Journal379Rrose Selavy demande385An Eye for a Tooth389Speech and Image: An African Tradition of the Surreal391The Silent House393Twilight398One Two or Three398Georgia398Epitaph: Tristan Tzara399Epitaph: Andre Breton400To Drink400From "Blind Date"401Note on Art411Note on Poetry413Before Night415Part XIX418Euthanasia - a Cat Kidnapped - Thirty Francs - The Veterinarian425Theessentialroar429Collective works433Intra-Uterine Life435Simulation of General Paralysis436Simulation of Delirium of Interpretation440Force of Habit441The Original Judgment443From "Barriers"447Scenario for L'Age d'or449From 152 Proverbes Mis au Gout du Jour453The Dog: Parallel Story455Surrealist Game461About Giorgio de Chirico's Enigma of a Day463About Paris466Trance Event469Dream475Dream479Dream483Some Dreams, 1947-1969485I Don't Know How to Cut It Up497The Country of My Dreams499Dream505The Dancer's Story507Address to the Pope511VVV513[Manifesto of umore]515Source Notes517Index527
\ From the Publisher"The images and texts in this glossy anthology are often startling and almost always beautiful." Boston Phoenix\ \ \ \ \ Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly\ While the lessons of surrealism have been pretty well assimilated by contemporary artists, the encyclopedic inclusivity of this selection, along with its global perspective and attention to women artists, provides plenty of surprises and new perspectives on this unconscious-driven movement. Renowned scholar and translator of French modernism Caws (The Eye of the Text, etc.), whose anthology Manifesto: A Century of Isms has just appeared (Forecasts, Feb. 19), makes her first, necessary act here to ignore what the rather dictatorial Andr Bretonfounder, primary theorist and tireless proselyte of the movementdeemed "surrealist" in his time, and to include work that is not just "automatic writing" or collaborative in nature, the two types of writing Breton championed most. Memoirs, poems, fables, manifestos, games and collaborative works, as well as photomontages, paintings, drawings and odd, scandalous objects, are included by artists well-known and not: Giorgio de Chirico, Man Ray, Philippe Soupault, Hans Bellmer, Kay Boyle, the founders of "negritude" Aim C saire and L opold S dar Senghor, Salvador Dal , Duchamp, Frida Kahlo, Michel Leiris, the underrecognized painter Dorothea Tanning (wife of Max Ernst), Mina Loy, Antonin Artaud, Leonora Carrington and Joseph Cornell make their appearances among many others. Because it leans more toward the painterlyi.e., imagistic and spasmodically creativeside of the movement and less toward the exacting political and philosophical side, the book can seem unfocused, and the lack of scholarly material, such as chronologies or biographic introductions, may leave one in the dark about the minor figures and how they fit in. But Caws's goal (as with Manifesto) is to present an active constellation of work beyond the canonizing and historicizing of the academy, placing the work back in the lap of the creative reader, in the here and now of the culture today. On that level, this anthology succeeds richly. (May) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.\ \ \ Library JournalSurrealism, that wonderful and strange 20th-century arts movement spurred by Andr Breton's pen, continues to influence artists, writers, and the makers of popular culture of our time. Inspired by Robert Motherwell's definitive anthology of Dadaist works, The Dada Painters and Poets (1989. reprint), Caws conceived this book at a companion to her more personal study of the movement, The Surrealist Look: An Erotics of Encounter (1997). Here she collects seminal and complementary materials produced by self-defined surrealists, from memoirs, dreams, and manifestos to games, journal entries, and many representative texts. Over 100 illustrations paintings and photographs of key people and other artworks give the volume a visual touchstone. Although Penelope Rosemont's Surrealist Women (LJ 9/15/98 ) gathers many women writers not found here, and the catalog to the Guggenheim show of the same name, Surrealism: Two Private Eyes (LJ 12/99) offers a more complete visual introduction to the movement, this will make an excellent addition to surrealism collections, as it offers an affordable but comprehensive overview of what in its multiple forms Breton considered poetry, the results of surrealism's "lyric behavior." Rebecca Miller, "Library Journal" Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.\ \
