"The typewriter, the card index, and the filing cabinet: these are technologies and modalities of the archive. To the bureaucrat, archives contain little more than garbage, paperwork no longer needed; to the historian, on the other hand, the archive's content stands as a quasi-o…
"Lauded internationally upon its publication in 1995 as 'the most complete portrait available in English or French of Surrealism's magister ludi' (New York Times Book Review) and 'the first great biography of André Breton' (Livres Hebdo), Revolution of the Mind is now reissuedd …
"Free Rein is a gathering of seminal essays by Andre Breton, the foremost figure among the French surrealists. Written between 1936 and 1952, they include addresses, manifestoes, prefaces, exhibition pamphlets, and theoretical, polemical, and lyrical essays. Together they displa…
"Through the analysis of narratives, paintings, and objets surrealistes by Breton, Aragon, Dali, and others, Malt examines how the object emerges as psychologically and historically marked in the surrealist context, functioning as both fetish and fetishized commodity. Responding…
"Le terme idiotie est créé au début du 19e siècle pour remplacer celui d'idiotisme qui désignait à la fois l'absence de culture et la stupidité au sens médical. Pourtant l'origine grecque introduit une nuance : idios signifie ce qui est spécial, propre ou original. De là, dire q…
