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The automatic image had been primarily conceived in literary terms. But could a state ot distraction be maintained vith highly technological processes? 'psychic automatism' is surrealism, no matter vhat torm it takes:'verbally, by means ot the vritten vord, or in any other manner'
The automatic image had been primarily conceived in literary terms. But could a state ot distraction be maintained vith highly technological processes? 'psychic automatism' is surrealism, no matter vhat torm it takes:'verbally, by means ot the vritten vord, or in any other manner'
The automatic image had been primarily conceived in literary terms. But could a state ot distraction be maintained vith highly technological processes? 'psychic automatism' is surrealism, no matter vhat torm it takes:'verbally, by means ot the vritten vord, or in any other manner'
75 1he automatic image is no Surrealist painting, he claimed. 63 Breton objected and took over editing ot the journal and, going turther, asserted in tour separate issues ot La Rvolution surraliste: Ie Surrealisme et la peinture (Surrealism and Painting,. 64 1hese tour articles vere then collectively published as a separate book, Le Surralisme et la peinture (Surrealism and Painting,, in +,:: vith photogravure plates ot various vorks by ten artists, as illustrations to support the argument: Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Giorgio de Chirico, lrancis Picabia, Max Lrnst, Man Pay, Andre Masson, oan Mir, Yves 1anguy and ean Arp. 63 All this vas not merely a pover play betveen Naville and Breton, but also a theoretical dispute over vhat torms a surrealist image could take. Hitherto the automatic image had been primarily conceived in literary terms. Automatic vriting, dream recitals and monologues under hypnosis all had understandable relations to states ot psychic automation as the mode ot producing images. But could a state ot distraction be maintained vith highly technological processes Hov could the contrived teld ot painting, tor example, relay visually the automatic images ot mental or psychical images 1his vas Navilles objection. In the trst Manifesto the issue had been made quite clear: psychic automatism is surrealism, no matter vhat torm ot representation it takes: verbally, by means ot the vritten vord, or in any other manner. Whatever Breton or Naville personally privileged as the means to surrealist images, the torm ot psychic automatism vas not dogmatically proscribed. Lven in the later essay 1he Automatic Message (+,, vhere Andre Breton claims auditory (verbo-auditive, automatism to be the intnitely richer source ot visual meaning, he does so vith a caution that lays dovn a gauntlet tor artists: 1his much having been said, the painters obviously are nov the ones to speak, vhether to contradict or not. 66 In the early episodes ot Surrealism and Painting Breton railed, as he had in the Manifesto, against art based in mimetic realism. What does it matter to me vhether trees are green, vhether a piano is at this moment nearer to me than a carriage, vhether a ball is cylindrical or round 67 And it Breton envisages a picture as a vindov and poses the question to o Pierre Naville, Plus per- sonne nignore quil ny a pas de peinture surraliste (see his Beaux- Arts, in La Rvolution surraliste, no. , April +,:, p. :;,. o Bretons vievs are recorded in his intervievs vith Andre Parinaud, Conversations: The Autobiography of Surrealism, p. ,:. 1he essays by Breton, Ie Surreal- isme et la peinture, appeared in La Rvolution surraliste, no. ( uly +,:,, pp. :oo, no. o (March +,:o,, pp. o:, nos ; and ,+o (October +,:;,, pp. o. 1he +,:: book included additional vritten material. o Andre Breton, Le Surral- isme et la peinture (Paris: Gallimard, +,::,. 1he cover is metallic green vith black lettering. Bretons essay vas printed in its entirety vith the photogravure plates set at the back in sections by individual artists. oo See Andre Breton, 1he Automatic Message, in Pose- mont (ed.,, What is Surrealism?, p. +o:. o; Breton, Surrealism and Painting, p. :.
A LM Still (Photograph) From Man Ray's Cinépoéme' As A Photograph in La Centre of André Breton's Essay, Le Surréalisme Et La Peinture' in La Révolution Surréaliste, No. - , October
A LM Still (Photograph) From Man Ray's Cinépoéme' As A Photograph in La Centre of André Breton's Essay, Le Surréalisme Et La Peinture' in La Révolution Surréaliste, No. - , October