SURREALISM

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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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FILM LIT

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 Salpêtrière

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Don't Kiss Me: The Art of Claude Cahun & Marcel Moore

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QUOTE

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.

~Andre Breton
Nadja

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Nadja

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I myself shall continue living in my glass house where you can always see who comes to call, where everything hanging from the the ceiling and on the walls stays where it is as if by magic, where I sleep nights in a glass bed, under glass sheets, where who I am will sooner or later appear etched by a diamond.

~from Nadja by Andre Breton

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SURREAL SOUNDS 

Surrealism Reviewed

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Erik Satie: Gnossiennes; Gymnopédies; Ogives; Trois Sarabandes; Petite ouverture à danser

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Bad Boys!

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SPOTLIGHT: George Antheil

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Surrealist Love Poems

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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
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Automatic Writing
Automatic Writing
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Surrealist Games
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The Department of Objects and Delusions
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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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