Description
Print dated Mexico, July 25, 1938.
- 4 pages in-4°, printed in black ink, signed and dated Mexico, July 25, 1938:
“It can be claimed without exaggeration that human civilization has never been threatened with so many dangers as it is today. The vandals, using their barbaric, that is to say very precarious, means, destroyed ancient civilization in a limited corner of Europe. Currently, it is the entire world civilization, in the unity of its historical destiny, which is tottering under the threat of reactionary forces armed with all modern technology. We are not only looking at the approaching war. From now on, in times of peace, the situation of science and art has become absolutely intolerable. » [André Breton website, 2023]
Translated by Christina Heflin
Bibliography
André Breton (Édition publiée sous la direction d'Étienne-Alain Hubert avec la collaboration de Philippe Bernier, Marie-Claire Dumas et José Pierre ), Pour un art révolutionnaire indépendant, Œuvres complètes, tome III, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Paris, Gallimard, 1999, p. 684-691.
Maurice Nadeau, Histoire du surréalisme, Documents surréalistes, Paris, Le Seuil, 1948, p. 372
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