Life of a Surrealist

Author: Pierre Dac
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Publish Date: 2005-02-01
Features: Apollinaire, Breton, Aragon, Soup, Eluard, Ernst, Miró, Dalí, Mayakovsky's extraordinary artistic ideals and unconventional lifestyles; it shattered the shackles of revolutionary realism, it is pruning trees; Surrealism, then, is pruning life. World War II gave birth to the Surrealist movement, a revolution demanding "to change everything," which profoundly influenced French and world culture in the 20th century. This book is not a "official history" of the Surrealist movement; it records the dreamlike lives of the young Surrealists; their innovative artistic creations and practices, their passion and confusion in politics, their enigmatic emotional worlds, and their ambiguous internal conflicts. In their youth from 1917 to 1932, their daily lives were the best "Surrealist" artistic creations. This book is by no means a history of Surrealism. Humble to say, it records some bewildering and fantastical experiences of the Surrealists.