"First published 2015 by order of the Tate Trustees by Tate Publishing, a division of Tate Enterprises Ltd." "All translations, except where otherwise stated, are by Krzysztof Fijalkowski and Michael Richardson." Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The annihilation of self-identity -- Introduction -- Being and its reflections / Jacques Hérold -- The haunting / André Breton -- Preface in praise of popular prejudices / Pierre Mabille -- The noble mannequin seeks and finds her skin / René Crevel -- The light, the shadow and the prey / Paul Nougé -- Mirrors / Pierre Mabille -- The "caput mortuum" or the alchemist's wife / Michae Leiris -- Non-scientific treatise on the fourth dimension / Marcel Marien -- What is a woman? / Leonora Carrington -- Leave everything / Annie Le Brun -- Memory of the last / Vincent Bounoure -- You always cherish your failures, machine-man / Bernard Caburet -- The challenge of otherness -- Introduction -- Pamphlet against Jerusalem / Robert Desnos -- The universal bases of culture / Antonin Artaud -- Don't clutter up the colonies (fragments); Approaching the enchanted castle / Jacques Viot -- The patriotism of the unconscious / René Crevel -- Ruins: ruine de ruines / Benjamin Péret -- The nocturnal island / The Bucharest Surrealist Group -- The friendship of man and beast / Georges Bataille -- Cat=clover / Jacqueline Sénard-Duprey -- Embers in Ceridwen's cauldron / André Breton -- Light of life / Benjamin Péret -- The twilight of the wheeler-dealers / Robert Benayoun -- The passage from poetry to philosophy / René Ménil -- A creolism sewn with white thread / Annie Le Brun -- The exit from Egypt / René Alleau -- The moral imperative -- Introduction -- It's up to you / Louis Aragon -- Note on freedom / Louis Aragon -- Humour as a moral attitude / Marko Ristić -- Love of revolution in our time / Nicolas Calas -- Liberty versus liberation / André Breton -- Reflections on the executioner and the victim / Georges Bataille -- Is surrealism a philosophy? / Gérard Legrand -- Freedom as nostalgia and as project / Georges Henein -- The hidden being / Elisabeth Lenk -- Festival mood / Philippe Audoin -- Paradise / PIerre Mabille -- The tasks of art and poetry -- Introduction -- Notes on poetry / André Breton and Paul Éluard -- The social anarchy of art / Antonin Artaud -- The rotting donkey / Salvador Dalí -- Specification of poetry / Roger Caillois -- Essay on the situation of poetry / Tristan Tzara -- Inviolable images / Paul Nougé -- Systematisation and determination / Roger Caillois -- The subversive function of poetry / Georges Henein -- On surrealist semiology / Karel Teige -- The sense of the world / René Magritte -- Automatic perspective / Adrien Dax -- Notes on poetry / Paul Nougé -- Surrealism and the savage heart / Vincent Bounoure -- Magic art and revolution / Vincent Bounoure and Vratislav Effenberger -- On the utilitarian conception of language / Vratislav Effenberger.
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