"LET'S MAKE A CLEAN SLATE OF THE PAST", LES CAHIERS DU MUSÉE NATIONAL D'ART MODERNE, DOSSIER ANDRÉ BRETON, SURREALISM AND POLITICS, 2016, P. 24-26.
ANDRÉ BRETON DOSSIER, LES CAHIERS DU MUSÉE NATIONAL D'ART MODERNE 9782844267610
SUMMARY
Surrealism links in an indissociable manner – without ever wanting to confuse them – poetic revolution and political revolution. In 1927, the surrealists joined the French Communist Party en masse. In 1933, they were all excluded from it, with the exception of Aragon. Between these two dates, a succession of misunderstandings, disappointments and volte-faces. Was surrealism therefore incompatible with political commitment? Theorist of surrealism, André Breton never ceased to seek to define the specificity of art by confronting it notably with political commitment and action.
DESCRIPTION
This new special issue of the MNAM Notebooks, presented in the form of an almanac, accompanies the sequence of dossier exhibitions devoted to the politics of art and questions, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his death, André Breton's relationship to politics.
Numerous documents, texts, images, articles or tracts illustrate the seven essays by specialists on the subject.
CONTENTS:
Bernard Blistène and Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov: Preface
Jean-Michel Bouhours, Jean-Michel Goutier and Camille Morando: Foreword
Jacqueline Chénieux-Gendron: Of law and politics: the poet's alert
Henri Béhar: Let's make a clean slate of the past
Camille Morando: To the fire! Against the International Colonial Exhibition
Jean-Michel Bouhours: Pose before Guernica
Gérard Roche: Breton and Trotsky – from "convulsive beauty" to independent revolutionary art
Jean-Michel Goutier: Libertarian salvos. Surrealism and Anarchy
Jérôme Duwa: The Manifesto of the 121 or the law of insubmission
CHARACTERISTICS: Binding: Paperback Language: French EAN 9782844267610 Number of pages 112 Publication date 5/10/2016 Dimensions 19 x 26 cm
Under the direction of Jean-Michel Bouhours, Jean-Michel Goutier and Camille Morando