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Rudosky, Christina Helena.

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Breton the Collector: A Surrealist Poetics of the Object.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Breton the Collector: A Surrealist Poetics of the Object./
Author:	Rudosky, Christina Helena.
Description:	267 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-05(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-05A(E).
Subject:	Romance literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3743725
ISBN:	9781339364704

Breton the Collector: A Surrealist Poetics of the Object.
Rudosky, Christina Helena.

Breton the Collector: A Surrealist Poetics of the Object. - 267 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-05(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Colorado at Boulder, 2015.

In 1937 Andre Breton declared in his surrealist novel L'Amour fou, "what I write is my life, my house", suggesting a direct relationship between his writing and his home which was uniquely curated, wall to wall with collected objects. Breton's statement, no doubt made in affirmation of the Surrealist project to revolutionize everyday life offers reflection on the complex experience of writing as a practice inspired by daily encounters with our material surroundings. The fact that Breton chose to live among a myriad of objects in his atelier, at 42 rue Fontaine, suggests the construction of an intimate relationship between his work, his house, and the material collection he inhabited. By the end of his life, Breton possessed more than 15,000 items in his home: man-made and natural objects, books, manuscripts and other miscellaneous curiosities and ephemera. "Andre Breton the Collector: A Surrealist Poetics of the Object" explores this facet of Breton's life and work which has been largely overlooked in scholarship. By situating the surrealist interest in the object as a vehicle for artistic experimentation the 1930s, I argue that Breton's collecting can be viewed as a revolutionary and poetic practice within everyday life. In four chapters I draw from an investigation of archival art-objects and documents. Chapter one contextualizes the history and theory of Breton's collecting practice. Chapter two discusses Breton's acquisition and writing about oceanic ethnographic objects---such as the "Uli" effigy---as an anti-colonial gesture during early twentieth century Primitivism. Chapter three explores Breton's layout practice within different albums and presents a detailed reading of his Scrapbook as a collection of newspaper articles, photographs and ephemera compiled during WWII while exiled in North America. Chapter four shows how Breton used the Scrapbook collection for the writing of his novel, Arcane 17 during his trip to the Gaspesie in 1944. This dissertation explores how Breton's collecting practice directly influenced his literary and artistic production in Surrealism, ultimately defining a poetic of collecting in his work.

ISBN: 9781339364704Subjects--Topical Terms:

2144781
Romance literature.

Breton the Collector: A Surrealist Poetics of the Object.
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