Author André BretonPeople cited Friedrich Engels, Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, Salvador Dalí, Alberto Giacometti
Manuscript titled "Preface for the Copenhagen and Tenerife Surrealist Exhibitions" excerpt from the Prague conference, The Political Position of Surrealism.
This "Preface for the Copenhagen and Tenerife Surrealist Exhibitions" is in reality a reworked excerpt from the speech given in Prague in the spring of 1935. The original text appeared in The Political Position of Surrealism, Pléiade II, p. 488 in a more developped version including numerous citations. Leaning on the authority of Hegel, Breton attempted to properly legitimise the revolutionary value of a surrealist art that had been unjustly qualified as bourgeois by the Communists.
Handwritten, signed manuscript, undated [1935]
- 3 pages in-4° foliated on blue and pink paper, titled and signed by Breton. Published in issue 5-6 of the revue Cahiers d'Art under the same title.
"We also know what determining role, in the creation of this completely new artistic perspective, that Max Ernst's "collages" and "frottages" played, as well as the appearance of "Objects with symbolic functioning" (of automatic or dreamlike origin) promoted to real life following an initial request from Alberto Giacometti."
(La Pléiade, Volume II, The Political Position of Surrealism, Appendix, pages 488 à 491, 492, 495 and 496).
Translated by Christina Heflin
André Breton, (Édition de Marguerite Bonnet avec la collaboration de Philippe Bernier, Étienne-Alain Hubert et José Pierre), Position politique du surréalisme, Appendices, Œuvres complètes, tome II, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Paris, Gallimard, 1992, pages 488-491,492, 495-496.
| Creation date | 01/05/1935 |
| Bibliographical material | 3 pages in-4° foliated - manuscript - green and black ink on blue and pink paper |
| Languages | French |
| Number of pages | 3 p. |
| Reference | 438000 |
| Breton Auction, 2003 | Lot 2199 |
| Keywords | Exhibitions, Work notes, Politics, Reviews and Journals, Tenerife |
| Categories | Andre Breton's Manuscripts |
| Set | [AB's Manuscripts] Miscellaneous Manuscripts, [Journal] Cahiers d'art |
| Exhibitions | Exposition internationale Kubisme-Surrealisme de Copenhague , Exposition internationale du Surréalisme de Ténérife , Alberto Giacometti - André Breton, Amitiés surréalistes |
| Permanent link | https://www.andrebreton.fr/en/work/56600100318330 |
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Manuscript of a speech given by André Breton on 23 May, 1935 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
Three images, a description and a bibliography.
[Albums] Album Prague Ténérife circa 1935, [AB's Manuscripts] Miscellaneous Manuscripts
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Numéro 5 - 6, de la dixième année 1935, de cette revue artistique et littéraire éditée par Christian Zervos à Paris.
Une image, une notice descriptive.
By (artist) Giovanni Giacometti, Paul Klee, Man Ray, Man Ray, Jean ou Hans Arp, Victor Brauner, Salvador Dalí, Oscar Dominguez, Max Ernst, René Magritte, Joan Miró, Yves TanguyPreface by André Breton
Catalogue publié à Copenhague sans mention d'édition, en 1935.
Catalogue d'exposition préfacé par André Breton illustré de reproductions en noir d'œuvres surréalistes.
Catalogue d'exposition internationale Kubisme-Surrealisme de Copenhague organisée du 15 au 28 janvier 1935 par Bjerke-Petersen. La préface d'André Breton est traduite par Einer Tassing. [catalogue de la vente André Breton, 2003]
| Bibliographical material | Catalogue d'exposition, Copenhagen, s.é, in-12 agrafé. Photographie et illustrations en noir. |
| Date of publication | 1935 |
| Publication | first publication |
| Languages | Danish, French |
| Illustrations | reproductions d'œuvres |
| Number of pages | 12 p. |
| Reference | 9368000 |
| Breton Auction, 2003 | Lot 1549 |
| Keywords | Cubism, Exhibitions, Surrealism |
| Categories | Catalogues, books on art, artist's books |
| Exhibition | Exposition internationale Kubisme-Surrealisme de Copenhague |
| Permanent link | https://www.andrebreton.fr/en/work/56600101002400 |
Author André BretonPeople cited Dr Jean-Martin Charcot, Théodore Flournoy, Sigmund Freud, Héraclite, Jaensch, Henry James, Kiesow, Isidore Ducasse, dit comte de Lautréamont, Lee Miller, Henry Moore, F. W. H. Myers, Paul Nash, Arthur Rimbaud, von Schrenck-Notzing, Hugh Sykes Davies, David Gascoyne, Humphrey Jennings, Roland Penrose, Herbert Edward Read
This address, which André Breton included in La Clé des champs, completes a previous conference, itself similar to the introduction he gave at the Copenhagen and Tenerife exhibitions. In “Limits not frontiers of surrealism”, he insists on the English gothic novel and its occultation of reason. The poet thus takes stock of a well identified but little explored legacy (Radcliffe, Walpole, Lewis); the conference then refers to Freud and William James, thus resuming the uninterrupted course of a reflection on knowledge.
Address probably given at the inauguration of the London surrealist exhibition
| Creation date | juin -36 |
| Languages | French |
| Physical description | Ms et placards collés - encre verte et imp et crayon vert |
| Reference | 455000 |
| Keywords | Exhibitions |
| Set | [AB's Manuscripts] Miscellaneous Manuscripts |
| Exhibitions | Exposition internationale Kubisme-Surrealisme de Copenhague , Exposition internationale du Surréalisme de Ténérife |
| Permanent link | https://www.andrebreton.fr/en/work/56600100311330 |
