In January 1928, the surrealists initiated their remarkable "researches into sexuality" with a series of round-table conversations involving key figures such as André Breton, Yves Tanguy, Louis Aragon, Man Ray, Max Ernst and Antonin Artaud. The transcripts, in all their bizarre and fascinating detail, are presented here. While there is plenty of humor-not all of it intentional-the speakers were trying scrupulously to record every aspect of sexual love, cataloging preferences and positions, quality and quantity. This book is a unique historical record of sexual practice and ethics; a fundamental text for understanding the surrealist movement and, for all its idiosyncrasies, a document that still retains an extraordinary vitality today.
- ISBN10 0860913783
- ISBN13 9780860913788
- Publish Date 17 November 1992
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 January 1998
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Verso Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 222
- Language English