Article: Umour vs. the debraining machine.(Jacques Vache and the Roots of Surrealism, Including Vache's War Letters & Other Writings)(Book review)

Jacques Vache and the Roots of Surrealism, including Vache's War Letters & Other Writings. By Franklin Rosemont, Chicago: Charles H. Kerr Publishing Co., 2008, 396 pp. $20 paper. ISBN 978-0-88286-321-4 (0-88286-321-5)

The most revolutionary cultural, philosophical and political current to emerge from the early 20th century was surrealism. Frequently misrepresented by art historians as a mere "style" of art or as a defunct movement (though they never seem to agree on the date of its "death") surrealism was, and remains, a total assault on the entire reality principle of capitalist society. In Jacques Vache and the Roots of Surrealism Chicago Surrealist Group poet ...

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