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    Sadism And Surrealism: The Marquis de Sade and the Surrealists
    Sadism And Surrealism: The Marquis de Sade and the Surrealists
    Sadism And Surrealism: The Marquis de Sade and the Surrealists
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    Sadism And Surrealism: The Marquis de Sade and the Surrealists

    By Candice Black

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    The Marquis de Sade (17401814) was one of the key figures identified by Andre Breton in his Surrealist Manifestos as inspirational to the whole Surrealist movement. Sade's importance to the Surrealists and their close affiliates is reflected in the sheer volume of their art and writing dedicated to, or inspired by, his life, philosophy and work. "Sadism And Surrealism" is a detailed essay which documents this body of work, in terms of both art and literature.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherElektron Ebooks
    Release dateMar 4, 2015
    ISBN9781909923126
    Sadism And Surrealism: The Marquis de Sade and the Surrealists

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      SADISM AND SURREALISM

      BY CANDICE BLACK

      AN EBOOK

      ISBN 978-1-909923-12-6

      PUBLISHED BY ELEKTRON EBOOKS

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      No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a database or retrieval system, posted on any internet site, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright holders. Any such copyright infringement of this publication may result in civil prosecution

      THE MARQUIS DE SADE AND THE SURREALISTS

      The Marquis de Sade went back inside the spewing volcano

      From which he came

      With his beautiful hands still fringed

      His eyes like a young lady’s

      And that reason at panic level that was

      His alone

      But from the phosphorescent drawing room with viscera lamps

      He never ceased shouting mysterious orders

      Which open a breach in the moral night

      It is through that breach that I see

      The great cracking shadows the old undermined crust

      Dissolving

      To let me love you

      As the first man loved the first woman

      In full freedom

      A freedom

      For which fire made itself man

      For which the Marquis de Sade defied the centuries with his great abstract trees

      Of tragic acrobats

      Clinging to the gossamer threads of desire

      –André Breton, L’Air de l’Eau (1934)

      The divine marquis,

      the emblem of pride,

      the burning iceberg,

      bird of paradise...

      –Max Ernst, Paramyths (1948)

      "There can be no doubt: the substitution of natural forms for the abstractions currently used by philosophers will seem not only strange but absurd. It is probably fairly unimportant that philosophers themselves have often had to have recourse, though with repugnance, to terms that derive their value from the production of these forms in nature, as when they speak of baseness. No blindness interferes with defending the perogatives of abstraction. This substitution, moreover, threatens to carry one too far; it would result, in the first place, in a feeling of freedom, the free availability of oneself in every sense, which is absolutely unbearable for

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