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The Automatic Message: The Magnetic Fields / The Immaculate Conception

by Andre Breton, Paul Eluard, Philippe Soupault · 1997

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This book collects together the two most vital "automatic" texts of Surrealism — The Magnetic Fields(1919) and The Immaculate Conception(1930) — with Breton's prefatory essay "The Automatic Message" which relates this technique to the underlying concepts and aesthetic of the Surrealist movement.

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