André Breton and the question of the "work of art". Unconscious desire, idea and history in the surrealist negation of style I

Authors

  • Gabriel Cabello Padial Departamento de Historia del Arte. Universidad de Granada.

Keywords:

Avant-garde art, Aesthetics, Theory of Art, Surrealism, Art criticism

Abstract

André Breton's lecture in the Barcelona Athenaeum took place after his break with Dadaism but before the Surrealist Manifesto of 1924. In it he presented an outline of the situation which gave rise to surrealist concepts and thus the problems which avant-garde art was to encounter in the radical change it underwent during the period between the two World Wars. In the first part of this paper we follow Breton's argument, accepting its contradictions and limitations, so as to bring out one of the great discoveries of the Surrealists, expressed implicitly: the immanence and inter-subjectivity of desire.

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Published

2000-11-01

How to Cite

Cabello Padial, G. (2000). André Breton and the question of the "work of art". Unconscious desire, idea and history in the surrealist negation of style I. Cuadernos De Arte De La Universidad De Granada, 31, 213–232. Retrieved from https://revistaseug.ugr.es/index.php/caug/article/view/9067

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Section

Estudios