Author

Contributions

  • Breton, André, 1896-1966. - Contributor

Publication

2000 - City Lights Books, San Francisco, California

Language

English

Word Count

63,750 words, Guess

Page Count

255 pages

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL59247M
  • ISBN-100872863727
  • OCLC Control Number43245923
  • Library of Congress Control Number99087460
  • LibraryThing378883
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  • Goodreads981105

Classifications

  • DDC700/.92/2
  • LCCND2002.M57 A64 2000

Description

"During the early days of the Second World War, the Catalan painter Joan Miro created a startling series of twenty-three gouaches, his Constellations, works redolent with the nightmare of contemporary events. In 1958 the French poet Andre Breton composed his own Constellations, a set of hermetic prose poems meant to "illustrate" - that is, not simply to shed light on, but lend luster to - Miro's paintings, and to resume a peripatetic dialogue about exile. In Constellations of Miro, Breton Paul Hammond unravels some of the mysteries of the call-and-response of these two Surrealists by reading the pictures against the poetry, the poetry against the pictures, and both against the madness of a history that none of us has left that far behind."--BOOK JACKET.

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