Investigating Sex: Surrealist Discussions

Jose Pierre

Investigating Sex: Surrealist Discussions
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Verso Books
Country
United Kingdom
Published
16 January 2012
Pages
240
ISBN
9781844677122

Investigating Sex: Surrealist Discussions

Jose Pierre

Are women’s orgasms more intense than men’s? What did Andre Breton think of homosexuality? Can love be separated from physical desire? In 1928 a group of surrealist writers and artists held twelve round table discussions to address these questions. Calling them researches into sexuality, their bizarre and humorous conversations are now made available in this new edition in all their surreal and salacious detail. Their research spanned the most critical period for surrealism, a time of bitter political disputes, echoed in the intensity of these meetings and in the range of participants, including Andre Breton, Paul Eluard, Yves Tanguy, Benjamin Peret and Pierre Naville. Well before the so-called sexual revolution, their erotic exchanges broke sexual taboos and encouraged surrealists to openly share the libidinal themes they explored in their writing and art. In doing so, JoAnn Wypijewski writes in the new introduction, they are revealed as lovers and prigs, fantasists and humanists, adventurers in mind if not always in flesh-flawed, foolish, brilliant, clangingly sexual human beings.

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