Enquiry for Formes de l'art (André Breton)

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Enquiry for Formes de l'art

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Questionnaire sent to eighty artists and specialists in 1955 for the enquiry on magic art.

This document, essential for an understanding of the overall work completed by Breton for his enquiry into magic art, is simply the framework of the questionnaire sent to eighty artists and specialists in 1955. Breton, as is clear from the questions on the back, guides correspondents between their professional and intellectual approach to those objects and practices connected to magic (notably with questions relating to the contemporary age that has allegedly replaced the fiction of magic in favour of a magic of fiction), and their personal perception of the world – thus giving access to a more personal space, the one some have seen as ‘superstition’ or a feeling of the sacred, and that psychoanalysts term ‘magical behaviour’. [Atelier André Breton website, 2005]

This enquiry about magic art, published in the middle of the volume, has been slipped into a copy of L'Art magiquethat is already enhanced with a manuscript list and a letter from the Club français du Livre to an unidentified recipient (André Breton or Gérard Legrand). [Atelier André Breton website, 2019]

Bibliographical material	2 in-4° pages.
Date of publication	1955
Publication	first publication
Languages	French
Number of pages	2 p.
Reference	1310000
Breton Auction, 2003	Lot 2435
Keywords	Investigations et Questionnaires, The Magic Art
Categories	Archives, Archival Documents
Set	[Inquiries] L'Art magique
Permanent link	https://cms.andrebreton.fr/en/work/56600100599350