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Book Detail
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The Eye of a Poet:
Andre Breton and the Visual Arts
Adamowicz, Elza
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Publisher: Reaktion Books
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Synopsis:
llustrated throughout, a revealing look at the life and work of surrealist artist and collector Andr Breton. This is the first comprehensive study in English of surrealist leader Andr Breton's lifelong commitment to the visual arts. As an essayist, art critic, collector, gallery director, and artist, he actively promoted many painters, from turn-of-the-century Moreau and outsider artists to fellow surrealists like Ernst and 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 and 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.
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