Surrealism: The Road to the Absolute

by Anna Balakian

Book Overview

First published in 1959, Surrealism remains the most readable introduction to the French surrealist poets Apollinaire, Breton, Aragon, Eluard, and Reverdy. Providing a much-needed overview of the movement, Balakian places the surrealists in the context of early twentieth-century Paris and describes their reactions to symbolist poetry, World War I, and developments in science and industry, psychology, philosophy, and painting. Her coherent history...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226035603
• ISBN13: 9780226035604
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.0"