[lit-ideas] Re: Quote from Andre Breton?
- From: Ceridwen Harris <cmharris@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 08:19:18 -0400
This makes sense to me as a sculptor - when people look at my work and see
not a chunk of stone but rather a personality, with a living spirit ( and
strangely some do see these things in a sculpture) then the sculptor has in
a sense invoked a spirit. And I would say - again from personal experience
- that that spirit is either projected into the rock by the sculptor during
the creative process (or else freed from it, having been discovered there
). - The result is that people perceiving the sculpture experience
something like the knowledge you have that someone you know has just
entered a crowded room even while you cannot see them - a kind of passing
prickling awareness of a presence, which the conscious mind quickly tries
to rationalize and then of course that awareness slips away like a wakening
dream.
At 02:13 AM 02/05/2005, you wrote:
>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.
>
>John McCreery
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