[lit-ideas] Re: Quote from Andre Breton?
- From: Michael Chase <goya@xxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 10:28:34 +0200
Le 2 mai 05, =A8=A4 08:13, John McCreery a =A8=A6crit :
> Help, please.
>
> My dear wife is working on the translation of an article about
> Surrealism in Japanese Photography. The author has supplied a quote
> in Japanese, which says something like the following,
>
> "I envy the power to evoke the spirits of the dead, which some
> objects, like gods, possess. In the arts we want to make that power
> our own. What we call an objet is the receptacle of that fascination
> to which we aspire."
>
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> The quote is attributed to Andre Breton, in a 1936 Paris exhibition
> catalog (speech?) entitled, "Surrealist Objets."
>
> We will be very grateful, indeed, if someone can identify this quote
> and a citable translation, ideally in English.
M.C. You ought to be able to find it in the following work :
Title Manifestoes of Surrealism
Author(s) Andre Breton
Publisher University of Michigan Press
Publication Date June 15, 1969
Subject Philosophy
Format Paperback
Pages 316
Dimensions 5.39 x 7.97 x 0.72 in
ISBN 0472061828
You can buy a copy on Abe.books for $8 US
Best, Mike.
>
>
>
Michael Chase
(goya@xxxxxxxxxxx)
CNRS UPR 76
7, rue Guy Moquet
Villejuif 94801
France
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