The History of Surrealism

The history of Surrealism, First Printing.

Translated from the French by Richard Howard ; with an introduction by Roger Shattuck. 

CONTENTS: Introduction : Love and laughter : Surrealism reappraised / Roger Shattuck -- Foreword / Maurice Nadeau -- Part one : The elaboration. The war -- The poets in the war -- Dada -- The stimulators of Surrealism -- Part two : The heroic period, 1923-1925. The period of trances -- The foundation of the movement -- First weapons -- The Moroccan War -- Part three : The analytical period, 1925-1930. The Naville crisis -- Au grand jour -- The year of achievements -- The crisis of 1929 -- In the service of the revolution -- Part four : The period of autonomy, 1930-1939. The Aragon affair -- Dali and paranoia criticism -- Surrealist politics -- Toward a Surrealist art -- War again -- Part five : Epilogue. Breton in the United States -- Conclusions -- Thirteen years later -- Part six : Famous manifestos and documents. 1924. A corpse -- 1925. Open letter to M. Paul Claudel -- Declaration of January 27, 1925 -- 1926. Legitimate defense September 1926 -- 1927. With your permission -- Hands off love -- 1928. Objective chance : divination -- 1929. Notes on poetry -- 1930. A corpse -- Andre Breton : second Surrealist manifesto -- The Surrealist conception of sexual freedom -- Madness : an attempt to stimulate general paralysis -- 1931. Free union -- Red front -- 1932. The poverty of poetry : the Aragon affair before public opinion -- The poet's function -- 1933. Monsieur AA, antiphilosopher -- 1935. Salvador Dali's concrete irrationality by paranoia criticism -- 1936. Hello -- Head against the walls -- 1937. Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all -- L'amour fou, l'amour unique -- Principal works in which the Surrealist spirit has been manifested : an unsystematic bibliography -- Surrealist periodicals, manifestos, tracts, leaflets, catalogues, films, and critical works -- Biographical notes.

Dust Jacket is torn, see photo. Otherwise in Very Good Condition.