<TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText>Constellations of Miro, Breton</TitleText>

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GCDS-9780872863729 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100663760 02 0872863727 03 9780872863729 15 9780872863729 BC <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText>Constellations of Miro, Breton</TitleText> 1 A01 Hammond, Paul Paul Hammond Paul Hammond is a writer, editor, and translator living in Barcelona. He edited and translated The Shadow and Its Shadow: Surrealist Writings on the Cinema, and he is the author of Constellations of Miró, Breton. 01 eng 260 01 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 to 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. Featured in this edition are reproductions of the complete series of Joan Miro's Constellations and a translation of Andre Breton's "proses paralleles." Also included is Andre Breton's essay, "Constellations of Joan Miro," as well as documentary illustrations and photographs. About the AuthorPaul Hammond is the author of Marvellous Melies, "French Undressing, Upon the Pun: Dual Meaning in Words and Pictures (with Patrick Hughes), and a monograph on Luis Bunuel's L'Age d'or. He is the editor and translator of The Shadow and Its Shadow:Surrealist Writings on the Cinema (a new edition published by City Lights Books in Fall 2000), and the coeditor, with Ian Breakwell, of Seeing in the Dark: A Compendium of Cinemagoing and Brought to Book: The Balance of Books and Life. His translations include Whatever by Michel Houellebecq and The Virgin of the Hitmen by Fernando Vallejo. 02 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... 04 02 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100663760/images/87286100663760L.gif 07 02 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100663760/images/87286100663760S.gif http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100663760 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 20000601 01 8 in 02 6 in 08 16 oz City Lights Books 01 WORLD 30 20000601 01 02 18.95 USD