{"product_id":"surrealist-and-dadaist-poetry-an-anthology-paperback","title":"Surrealist and Dadaist Poetry: An Anthology - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJean Bonnin\u003c\/b\u003e (Compiled by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSurrealism and Dadaism have been two of the most influential \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand powerful internationalist movements of the twentieth century. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRevolution, absurdism, and humour fused together to create these \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eforces of untamed creativity. Forces that rejected the rational \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econscious mind in favour of dream, the subconscious, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esubversion, love, and hidden desire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Within these pages the reader will find the poems \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof both the dominant and the less well-known protagonists \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof Dadaism and Surrealism past and present, as well as \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esome poems by those who have been closely linked to both movements...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDada came into its own in 1916 at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewhere unstructured live performance, poetry, and music were\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecombined to create a subversive cultural break from the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estifling and destructive mores of the time...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSurrealism took up the baton and developed into \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enot only the subversive influence that its predecessor had been, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebut in addition it wished to, as André Breton put it: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einto an absolute reality, a super-reality\", or surreality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo other artistic and cultural movements have been as obdurate\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein their desire to change the world and to change reality -\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eboth from without and from within... And their belief\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein poetry, love, revolt, subversion, juxtaposition, and dream\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecan be seen to be coursing through the veins of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe poems that have been chosen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efor this anthology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn case it is ever forgotten, this collection reminds us\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof the importance of poetry in the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estruggle to carve out a more harmonious, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eradical and egalitarian future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 222\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.47 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 22, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47457818804477,"sku":"9781999821579","price":41.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/c3h3QUc3U2VnckhYQnhNdWpuR3hadz09.webp?v=1777248397","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/surrealist-and-dadaist-poetry-an-anthology-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}