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WHAT *IS* SURREALISM?
sur·re·al·ism 
[suh- ree-uh-liz-uhm]-noun (sometimes initial capital letter)
1927, from Fr. surréalisme (from sur- "beyond" réalisme "realism"), coined c.1917 by Guillaume Apollinaire, taken over by Andre Breton as the name of the movement he launched in 1924 with "Manifeste de Surréalisme." A style of art and literature developed principally in the 20th century, stressing the subconscious or nonrational significance of imagery arrived at by automatism or the exploitation of chance effects, unexpected juxtapositions, etc.
[Origin: 1920-25; < F surréalisme.]
Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the mid-1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members. The works feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and non sequitur, however many Surrealist artists and writers regard their work as an expression of the philosophical movement first and foremost with the works being an artifact, and leader André Breton was explicit in his assertion that Surrealism was above all a revolutionary movement. From the Dada activities of World War I Surrealism was formed with the most important center of the movement in Paris and from the 1920s spreading around the globe, eventually affecting films such as the Angel's Egg and El Topo, amongst others....
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Surrealism
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My new gallery is almost ready but until then, here's an image from it and a couple websites of mine. So, I've got 2 really good sites for you to check out since you're interested in Surrealism. The first is my own personal gallery o...
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Cabaret Voltaire
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Cabaret Voltaire was the name of a nightclub in Zurich, Switzerland. It was founded by Hugo Ball, with his companion Emmy Hennings on February 5, 1916 as a cabaret for artistic and political purposes. Other founding members were Marcel Janco, Richar...
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Nancy Cunard
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Nancy Clare Cunard (March 10, 1896 - March 17, 1965) was an English writer, editor and publisher, political activist, anarchist and poet. She was born into the British upper class but strongly rejected her family's values, devoting much of her life t...
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The Jazz Age
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The Jazz Age describes the period from 1918-1929, the years between the end of World War I and the start of the Roaring Twenties; ending with the rise of the Great Depression, the traditional values of this age saw great decline while the American st...
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Robert Desnos
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Robert Desnos was a French poet who joined André Breton in the early Surrealist movement, soon becoming one of its most valuable members because of his ability to fall into a hypnotic trance, under which he could recite his dreams, wri...
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Everything Vintage!
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vin·tage adj. Of or relating to a vintage. Characterized by excellence, maturity, and enduring appeal; classic.
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Lee Miller Muse of Picasso
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Her haunting beauty launched a brief career in New York as a cover model for American Vogue. Lee Miller broke boundary after boundary and set the cameras rolling and the stars talking. She was the pupil and lover of Man Ray and Muse of Picasso (used...
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Outsider_Art
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The term Outsider Art was coined by art critic Roger Cardinal in 1972 as an English synonym for Art Brut (which literally translates as "Raw Art" or "Rough Art"), a label created by French artist Jean Dubuffet to describe art created outside the boun...
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Andre Breton
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Andre Breton (February 19, 1896 - September 28, 1966) was a French writer, poet, and surrealist theorist, and is best known as the main founder of surrealism. His writings include the Surrealist Manifesto of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as pu...
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Fantomas
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Fantomas Fantomas is one of the most popular fictional arch-villains and master criminals in the history of French crime fiction. He is the creation of Marcel Allain (1885-1970) and Pierre Souvestre (1874-1914), a team of French writers. Fanto...
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Marchesa Casati
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Luisa Casati Stampa di Soncino, Marchesa di Roma (Milan, 23 January 1881 - London, 1 June 1957) was an eccentric Italian heiress, muse, and patroness of the arts in early 20th century Europe. Early life The younger daughter of a wealthy cotton m...
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Claude Cahun
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Born: October 25th, 1894 Died: December 8th, 1954 Claude Cahun was a French artist, photographer and writer. Her work was both political and personal, and often played with the concepts of gender and sexuality. Biography Born Lucy Schwob in Nantes,...
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Musidora
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Musidora (February 23, 1889 - December 11, 1957) was the professional stage-name of a popular French silent film actress of the early 20th century. She is most remembered for her vamp persona in the roles of Irma Vep and Diana Monti in the early moti...
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Josephine Baker
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Background information Birth name Freda Josephine Carson Born June 3, 1906, St. Louis, Missouri Died April 12, 1975, Paris, France Genre(s) Cabaret, Music Hall, French pop music Occupation(s) Singer, Dancer Josephine Baker (June 3, 1906 - April 12...
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DADA101
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WHAT *IS* DaDa? da·da [dah-dah] –noun (sometimes initial capital letter) the style and techniques of a group of artists, writers, etc., of the early 20th century who exploited accidental and incongruous effects in their work and who p...
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The Shadow and its Shadow
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Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria (Collected Papers of Sigmund Freud)
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Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpetriere
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Don't Kiss Me
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Perhaps my life is nothing but an image of this kind; perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.~from Nadja by Andre Breton
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Nadja
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~from Nadja by Andre Breton
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SURREAL SOUNDS
Surrealism Reviewed
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Erik Satie: Gnossiennes; Gymnopédies; Ogives; Etc.
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Thank you for sharing this the group; surrealismus@yahoogroups.com What a great resource! You are welcome to visit my site at http://www.myfxjournal.us I should add this site to my resources page.
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Posted February 09, 2008
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Above Photo: Fur Lined Tea Cup by Meret Oppenheim
- Surreal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Surrealism, artists and art...the-artists.org
- Documents of Dada and Surrealism: Dada and Surrealist Journals in ...
- Surrealist techniques - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Female Surrealist Artists
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LINKS
Above Photo: Marcel Duchamp as Rrose Selavy
- Surrealism
- Surrealism is a style in which fantastic visual imagery from the subconscious mind is used with no intention of making the artwork logically comprehensible.
- Surrealist.com
- Surrealism, surrealist, surreal, art, literature, music, dada, dadaism, and everything else.
- Surrealism
- A small virtual gallery of artwork by a number of noted surrealist painters.
- ArtLex on Surrealist Art
- Surrealism defined with images of examples from art history, great quotations, and links to other resources.
- WebMuseum: Surrealism
- Surrealism, movement in visual art and literature, flourishing in Europe between World Wars I and II. Surrealism grew principally out of the earlier Dada ...
- History of Surrealism
- Good introduction to Surrealism maintained by Monica Sanchez.
- Mark Harden's Artchive: "Dada and Surrealism"
- The Dada Surrealist Movement is now part of art history more in spite of, than because of, its initial aims. Dada began as an anti-art movement or, ...
- surrealism - Encyclopedia.com
- surrealism , literary and art movement influenced by Freudianism and dedicated to the expression of imagination as revealed in dreams, free of the con.
- ubuweb
- UbuWeb is a completely independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts.
- The Surrealism Server
- !Surr%uFFFDalisme!Surrealism
- Automatic Writing
- Automatic Writing
- Surrealist Games
- Surrealist Games
- Esme, Cadaveric Enigma Engine Generator
- Conversations with EsmeConverse with Esme. The less she talks, the more she has to say...
- The Department of Objects and Delusions
- The
Department of
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Delusions - Surrealist Writings
- Surrealist Literature
- Surrealism in Music
- Surrealism in Sound
- Immaculate Deception, Incarnate
- Groups and Representations of Surrealism.
- A Short Inverted Bibliography of Surrealism
- A Short, Inverted Bibliography of Surrealism.
- Miscellaneous Surrealist Information
- A Short, Inverted Bibliography of Surrealism.
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