Eye of the Poet
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Frida Kahlo
Louis Aragon
Man Ray
Max Ernst
Surrealism
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- ISBN 9781789145311
- Dimensions: 190 x 250mm
- Publication Date: 01 Aug 2022
- Publisher: Reaktion Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This is the first comprehensive study in English of surrealist leader André Breton’s life-long commitment to the visual arts. As an essayist, art critic, collector, gallery director and artist, he actively promoted many painters, from Gustave Moreau and outsider artists to fellow surrealists like Max Ernst and André Masson.
The book tracks both the development of Breton’s surrealist aesthetics within the Parisian avant-garde art scene and the centrality of art to his political agenda. It also highlights Breton the collector/collagist – the works he displayed in his Paris apartment, ranging from Oceanic masks to African sculptures, paintings to pebbles, are themselves seen as an ever-changing assemblage.
Elza Adamowicz is Emerita Professor of French Literature and Visual Culture at Queen Mary University of London. She has published numerous studies on the European avant-garde, including Dada Bodies: Between Battlefield and Fairground (2019).
