The Summit of Dreams. The Surrealists and Victor Hugo.
Exhibition catalog, Maison de Victor Hugo, Paris, October 17, 2013 - February 16, 2014.

The Summit of Dreams. The Surrealists and Victor Hugo.

Paris Museums
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N° d'inventaire 17556
Format 12 x 21
Détails 243 p., color illustrations, paperback.
Publication Paris, 2013
Etat Nine
ISBN

Published on the occasion of "La Cime du rêve, les surréalistes et Victor Hugo", this work is the first to question the surrealist posterity of Victor Hugo; an unsuspected posterity, on the poetic as well as the plastic level. The sensitive and philosophical thread that links romanticism to surrealism also passes through Victor Hugo, whose visionary poetry and incredible graphic inventions join the marvelous experiments of the surrealists and the interest of painters and poets for everything that emanates from dreams. This is what this book explores step by step, through several essays and a free literary and visual thematic journey, which takes the reader from castles to forests, from night to the ocean, from stains to footprints, from passionate love to political commitment, to the flamboyant deployment of an unexpected bestiary.

Published on the occasion of "La Cime du rêve, les surréalistes et Victor Hugo", this work is the first to question the surrealist posterity of Victor Hugo; an unsuspected posterity, on the poetic as well as the plastic level. The sensitive and philosophical thread that links romanticism to surrealism also passes through Victor Hugo, whose visionary poetry and incredible graphic inventions join the marvelous experiments of the surrealists and the interest of painters and poets for everything that emanates from dreams. This is what this book explores step by step, through several essays and a free literary and visual thematic journey, which takes the reader from castles to forests, from night to the ocean, from stains to footprints, from passionate love to political commitment, to the flamboyant deployment of an unexpected bestiary.