Treatise on Style

by Louis Aragon

Surprising juxtapositions like goats spread across pianos and fearful optical illusions like eyeballs being sliced characterized the surrealistic movement in the arts in 1928 when Louis Aragon published Trait du Style in Paris. Aragon had become ever more contemptuous of vogues and pretensions. In the name of surrealism, he produced the first significant critique of it. Instead of merely upsetting old relationships and skewering sensibilities, Trait...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803210248
• ISBN13: 9780803210240
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 119 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.3"