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Article: Ceci n'est pas un tableau: les ecrits surrealistes sur l'art.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- October 1, 2005
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Ceci n'est pas un tableau: les ecrits surrealistes sur l'art. By ELZA ADAMOWICZ. (Bibliotheque Melusine, 14) Lausanne: L'Age d'Homme. 2004. 259 pp. 21 [euro]. ISBN 2-8251-1875-3.
In this dynamic reading of the response of Surrealist writers to modern art, Elza Adamowicz explores a corpus of texts that is as hybrid and invigorated as the visual culture which it confronts and which it mimes or metaphorizes, poeticizes or polemicizes. Adamowicz begins with Breton's textual practice, scrutinizing the shift from visual image to verbal image as Breton pursues his metaphoric trajectory beyond the limits of the art work. Metaphorization allows Breton to preserve ...