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This is the first English translation of a key text of the Surrealist movement, exploring the relationship between magic and the creative arts through the ages.
Presented in a newly formatted, expanded edition and produced to the highest standards, this publication by Fulgur Press represents a significant landmark in this emerging field of esoteric studies and presents this text to an English-speaking readership for the first time.
Breton’s late treatise on magic and art appears for the first time in English, complete with citations, commentaries and a bibliography
What is “Magic Art”? In 1953, André Breton, founder of the Surrealist movement, was invited by a prestigious French publisher to explore answers to this question. His resulting analysis is wide-ranging and evocative. Beginning with a literary review of magic and art, Breton draws upon Novalis and Baudelaire before considering the prehistoric rock art of Spain and France, the native art of the Pacific Northwest, the magical grimoires and alchemical symbolism of the Middle Ages, and the work of…
It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.
The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…
This exhibition catalogue was produced to accompany an exhibition in Brussels this year to celebrate the anniversary of the First Surrealist Manifesto (1924). What I enjoyed was the way it revealed the similarities and disjunctions between the Symbolist movement of the 19th century with the Surrealist movement of the early 20th century. The catalogue explores different thematic aspects of these movements to produce interesting clusters of ideas and imagery for the first time. Lavishly produced, this catalogue is both a visual treat and a thought-provoking read.
100 years after the publication of André Breton’s Manifeste du Surréalisme, The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium celebrate a century of international surrealism with the extraordinary exhibition IMAGINE! From Giorgio de Chirico to Jackson Pollock, Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Joan Miró, Dorothea Tanning, Man Ray and Leonor Fini: the exhibition and accompanying book offer an immersion in surrealist poetry, dream, the labyrinth, metamorphosis, the unknown and the subconscious, led by the great names of the surrealists. (French edition available ISBN 9789464781120) (Dutch edition available ISBN 9789464781113 - idea code 24188)
