Excerpt from First Papers of Surrealism: Hanging by Andre Breton, His Twine Marcel DuchampThis communion, a sort of festive ceremonial dedicated to the imagination, has already persisted for two decades. It is not the factor of time, itself, that is so im pressive, for the pure fire of Cubism and collage, which has set in motion continuing metamorphoses of creative energy, was brief in duration, lasting from 1910 to 1913. The imposing fact is that Surrealism from its inception, became and has ever since remained the cardinal germinating source for many of the most gifted and far-see ing artists on the international scene.What is there in our time that creates the condition favorable for this persis tent and magnetic domination? Is it perhaps that Surrealism exists in the very lives of a people functioning in a power age, inherent in the fabulous unreality of living in a shockingly real period; that it is em bedded in the fantastic implications under lyng the bald mechanistic aspect of that age?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy.

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