Rise of Surrealism

Willard Bohn is Professor of Foreign Languages at Illinois State University. He has written several books, including Apollinaire and the International Avant-Garde, also published by SUNY Press, and Modern Visual Poetry, and he is the translator of The Dada Market: An Anthology of Poetry.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Probing the Fourth Dimension: Guillaume Apollinaire and Max Weber 3. The Demise of the Object: Francis Picabia and Marius de Zayas 4. Giorgio de Chirico and the Solitude of the Sign 5. From Surrealism to Surrealism: Guillaume Apollinaire and Andre Breton 6. The Surrealist Image in Literature and Art 7. An Extraordinary Voyage: J. V. Foix and Joan Miro 8. The Hour of the Sphinx: Andre Breton and Joan Miro 9. Coda Notes Bibliography Index

"This topic is significant for virtually all students of twentieth-century art and literature, in France and the West generally. A superb piece of scholarship." — Robert W. Greene, author of Just Words: Moralism and Metalanguage in Twentieth-Century French Fiction"Bohn takes up many of the most challenging, well-known, and lingering critical questions for students of Surrealism, and the reader comes away from the book having learned many important new things, along with the answers to several other, older problems." — Stamos Metzidakis, coauthor and editor of Understanding French Poetry: Essays for a New Millennium