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Interview by Andre Parinaud

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Authors André Parinaud, André Breton
People cited Gaston Bachelard, Charles Baudelaire, Louis de Broglie, Giorgio De Chirico, Charles Fourier, Sigmund Freud, Heisenberg, Vassily Kandinsky, Wifredo Lam, Georg-Christoph Lichtenberg, Stéphane Lupasco, Wolfgang Paalen, Francis Ponge, Arthur Rimbaud, Hermann Rorschach, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, M.-A. Sechehaye, Dorothea Tanning, Jean ou Hans Arp, Victor Brauner, Leonora Carrington, Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Jacques Hérold, René Magritte, Roberto Echauren Matta, Francis Picabia, Kurt Seligmann, Yves Tanguy, Marie Cerminova, dite Toyen

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Text of André Breton's responses to André Parinaud for the magazine Arts published 7 March 1952.

Responding to André Parinaud for the second time for the magazine Arts (the interview was published on 7 March 1952), Breton addresses the relations between art and science, a topic he hadn’t really addressed since the end of the 1920s. It gave him a chance to return to the contribution made by psychoanalysis, and question the machine’s imaginary, notably through visual works. Let’s recall that at that time there was great interest in France in robots (Georges Bernanos devoted an essay to them). [Atelier André Breton website, 2005]

Handwritten manuscript signed, 29 February 1952.
- 3 pages in-4° folio, dated and signed, handwritten in black ink and constituting André Parinaud’s interview with André Breton published in the magazine Arts on 7 March 1952 and entitled: ‘Enquête A. Parinaud (Arts)’.
‘André Parinaud. - After having been identified with one another for a long time, art and science have for centuries been separated in their disciplines and aspirations. Do these relations seem fortuitous to you or do you believe that historical evolution naturally causes scientists and artists to find common ground?
‘André Breton. - I don't see why science and art would stop looking at each other like earthenware dogs so soon. I don’t see how the two labyrinthine roads of science and art could converge when the path civilization has taken leads in a direction that like Rousseau and Fourier I consider pointless and even completely aberrant. [sale catalogue, 2003]

*This entry was translated from the French by Michael Richardson.

Bibliography

André Breton (édition établie par Marguerite Bonnet et éditée par Étienne-Alain Hubert avec les contributions de Philippe Bernier, Marie-Claire Dumas et José Pierre), « Deux interviews d'André Parinaud, II », Entretiens 1913-1952, Œuvres complètes, tome III, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Paris, Gallimard, 1999, p. 634-639, notice p. 1331-1332.