54 results for '"BRETON,A"'

A new translation of one of the defining works of the French surrealist movement, an energetic autobiographical novel that is at once both a tumultuous romance story and an initiation into the...

Democracy is widely accepted today as the most suitable form of government. But does democracy always produce good government? Although often associated with the existence of competitive elections,...

"Mad Love is a bizarre, beautiful book. It is a novel, an autobiography, a manifesto-a highly unusual hybrid or, better yet, a 'miracle of rare device.'. . . [Breton] has seduced me. I have tried to...

"Nadja, " originally published in France in 1928, is the first and perhaps best Surrealist romance ever written, a book which defined that movement's attitude toward everyday life. The principal...

Built in the fifth century b.c., the Parthenon has been venerated for more than two millennia as the West's ultimate paragon of beauty and proportion. Since the Enlightenment, it has also come to...

Text: French

Gathers lithographs, etchings, drypoint, and woodcuts by Gauguin and other Breton artists, and discusses how the prints were made

En 1975, les habitants du village breton de Plogoff opposent une résistance déterminée au projet d'implantation d'une centrale nucléaire sur le territoire de leur commune. Ce lieu se trouve sur une...

Twenty-nine Breton tales, as told over a series of long winter nights, featuring an ingenious miller, a Jerusalem-bound ant, a mad dash at midnight, and moreIn the late nineteenth century, the...

In Britain's land beyond the seas The wind blows ever through the trees; in Britain's land beyond the waves are stony shores and stony caves. So begins The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun, an early...

An exciting new collection of the essential writings of surrealism, the European avant-garde movement of the mind’s deepest powers Originating in 1916 with the avant-garde Dada movement at the famous...

This book studies women's language use in bilingual or multi-lingual cultural situations. The authors - social anthropologists, language teachers, and interpreters cover a wide variety of...

A photographic guide to the common plants and animals that inhabit the intertidal zone--the area covered by water at high tide and exposed during low tide--on the Atlantic coast from Cape Canaveral,...

Surrealist Art and Writing, 1919-1939 offers a fresh analysis of Surrealism--of the artists Dalí, Ernst, Masson and Tanguy and the writing of Surrealism's leaders--André Breton, Aragon and Eluard...

"In this magical book, pop-up engineer Gerard Lo Monaco brings to life eight works of art by leading surrealists: Salvador Dalí, Victor, Jean Arp, Man Ray, Joseph Cornell, Dora Maar, René Magritte,...

Man Ray (1890-1976) was a man both of and ahead of his time. With his conceptual approach and innovative techniques, he liberated photography from previous constraints and opened the floodgates to...

An elegant consideration of the Surrealist movement as a global phenomenon and why it continues to resonate "Mr. Polizzotti carefully balances the movement's aspirations and attainments against its...

The definitive volume on important, little-known Surrealist artist Enrico Donati--on the occasion of new research and never-before-published material. Enrico Donati first found acclaim when the...

"Né des curiosités de l'adolescence, nourri des révoltes et des expériences de l'homme, ordonné par la puissance magique du poète, L'Enchanteur pourrissant n'est pas une composition laborieuse...