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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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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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
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Nadja
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~from Nadja by Andre Breton
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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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Surrealist Love Poems
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Bob_Druwing Mar 11, 2009 @ 7:39 pm | delete
- "The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot." - Andre Breton
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- Excellent, excellent page!
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rydigga
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- Hi,
This is a very comprehensive lens, well done! Thanks for sharing.
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drresearch
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- Another well crafted lens.
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Mark Gilvey
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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.
Mark
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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
- !Surr%uFFFDalisme!Surrealism
- Automatic Writing
- Automatic Writing
- Surrealist Games
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- Esme, Cadaveric Enigma Engine Generator
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- The Department of Objects and Delusions
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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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