Revolution of the Mind: The Life of Andre Breton [Mark Polizzotti]

[Surrealism] [Breton] [Genius]

Revolution of the mind: The Life of Andrew Breton

Mark Polizzotti

Da Capo, NY. 1997. First Da Capo paperback edition. Some stains along the text block, creasing on rear cover, old price tag sticker. An excellent copy.

From the publisher:

"Aptly described by playwright Eugene Ionesco as "one of the four or five great reformers of modern thought", Andre Breton (1896-1966) was the founder and prime mover of Surrealism, the most influential artistic and literary movement of the 20th century. Poet and theorist, artistic impresario and political agitator, Breton was a man of paradoxical character: inspiring one moment, crushingly tyrannical the next; embracing friends like Brunuel, Dali, Duchamp, Miro, Man Ray, Aragon and Eluard, only to exile them as enemies later. From its emergence from Dada after World War I through its culmination in the 1960s, here is the Surrealist world in detail."

A very cool, and massive (this book is 700+ pages) exploration of the life of Breton. Genius stuff.