Les manifestes du Surréalisme suivis de prolégomènes à un troisième manifeste du Surréalisme ou non
Artist: Roberto Matta (Chilean, 1911-2002)
Publisher: Éditions du sagittaire, [Paris], 1947 (copyright 1946)
Printer: Imprimerie Ch.-A. Bédu, St. Amànd
Author: André Breton (French, 1896-1966)
Date: 1947
Dimensions:
Book: H: 7 5/8 in. (194 mm); W: 5 9/16 in. (142 mm); Depth: 1 in. (26 mm).
Page (untrimmed): H: 7 1/2 in. (191 mm); W: 5 1/2 in. (139 mm).
Medium: Original prints: 3 drypoint etchings on Van Gelder cream wove paper.
Reproduction: 1 line block reproduction of a drawing by Breton, in red (front wrapper).
Text: letterpress on Van Gelder cream laid paper (typeface: Plantin).
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Gift of Molly and Walter Bareiss
Object number: 1984.743
Label Text:In 1924, the French poet Andre Breton issued the "First Surrealist Manifesto", calling for "pure psychic automatism by which it is intended to express, either orally or in writing, the true function of thought.... Thought dictated in the absence of all control exerted by reason, and outside all aesthetic or moral preoccupations." This book reprints the 1924 manifesto, in addition to Breton's essays of 1929, 1930, 1942, and 1946. Three etchings by Matta illustrate this book of Breton texts, including this portrait of "a poet of our acquaintance" which precedes the 1930 essay on the "Second Surrealist Manifesto."
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