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	surrealism - Anarchopedia
		While some have described David Lynch as a surrealist filmmaker, he has never participated in the surrealist movement or in any surrealist activity, although there are arguably some aspects of many of his films that are of surrealist interest.
		Surrealist Subversions: The Surrealist Movement in the United States (edited with an introduction by Ron Sakolsky).
		"Counterclockwise": Manifesto of the Surrealist Group in Wisconsin
	eng.anarchopedia.org /surrealism (1123 words)

	Pakistanian Sculptor: Wasan Khurshid
		Faithful to his interpretation, a very genuine name of surrealistic approach in our part of land Wasan Khurshid sees the academic discipline of art as intolerant of the free _expression of feeling, and felt form, which had dominated the history of art, was a culprit in that intolerance.
		As a mere part but not a complete resolute of Poetic Surrealist, Wasan sees the academic discipline and form as the means to represent the images of the subconscious with veracity; as a way to freeze images that, if unrecorded, would easily dissolve once again into the unknown.
		The Poetic Surrealistic touch quest in Wasan's dilemma is none other than the one described by Breton as, "The cause of freedom and the transformation of man's consciousness." Dali embraced all the science of painting as a way to study the psyche through subconscious images.
	www.caroun.com /Sculpture/Artists/Pakistan/WasanKhurshid.html (2440 words)

	The powder keg - Salon
		Right now, much of al-Qaida is probably in Pakistan, a nuclear-armed country riven not just by ascendant Islamist extremism, but also by fierce communal conflicts between both religious sects and ethnic groups.
		Both do for Pakistan what Rashid did for the Taliban by offering a way for general readers to get a grip on complex political currents that seem to be leading inexorably toward crisis.
		In Pakistan's case, those groups include Pathans (known in Afghanistan as Pashtuns), Punjabis, Balocis, Sindhis and Mohajirs, all of whom, thanks largely to American policies, have lots of guns.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/feature/2002/11/05/pakistan/index.html (782 words)

	GB.268/8/2 - Governing Body
		The representative of the Government of Malaysia endorsed the position taken by the Asia and Pacific group and reiterated that it was the responsibility of the ILO to promote labour standards, especially the core standards, in its efforts to seek and enhance social justice in line with its Constitution.
		On the basis of the positions adopted by the African group at the Ministerial Conference in Singapore, they reaffirmed their commitment to the promotion of the ILO Constitution, and to the fundamental rights enshrined in the Constitution and the Declaration of Philadelphia.
		His group had put forward specific proposals, and the debate would be further enriched by the discussions at the forthcoming Conference.
	www.ilo.org /public/english/standards/relm/gb/docs/gb268/gb-8-2.htm (15867 words)

	Hobgoblin Journal
		The Surrealists, like their forerunners in the Dadaist movement, allied themselves with radical politics, but their philosophy of revolutionary self-transformation was deeply influenced by Freud's ideas on the interrelation of the conscious and the sub-conscious.
		As the surrealist poet Paul Eluard argued, true poetic invention involved a concrete unity of subjective and objective experience; it was an act of "deviating" the objects of the world from their accepted roles and properties.
		In May 1968, the ICO was attacked by the Situationists on the Sorbonne/Nanterre student occupations committee for refusing to "intervene" in the universities to build co-ordinating bodies for students and workers independently of the vanguard parties.
	www.thehobgoblin.co.uk /journal/H4.htm (6009 words)

	surrealist documents: Surrealist Group of Pakistan, Against the Dictatorship of Allah
		Declaration of the Surrealists of Pakistan (in exile), circa 1978
		Only by maintaining an incessant vigilance of desire will we be able to destroy such vermin, as well as the decadent notions they uphold: repressive morality, salvation, work, discipline, the fatherland, piety, sacrifice, the family and "national unity".
		In the spirit of joyously impious wizardry and implacably subversive fraternity, we are prepared to join forces with any and all who express, in theory and practice, their unreservedly revolutionary opposition to all systems of exploitation and humiliation.
	surrealcoconut.com /surrealist_documents/pakistan_surrealist_group.htm (217 words)

	Surrealism \| Special Topics Page \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Surrealist poets were at first reluctant to align themselves with visual artists because they believed that the laborious processes of painting, drawing, and sculpting were at odds with the spontaneity of uninhibited expression.
		For example, Duchamp's conceptually complex Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass) (1915–23; Philadelphia Museum of Art) was admired by Surrealists and is considered a precursor to the movement because of its bizarrely juxtaposed and erotically charged objects.
		The visual artists who first worked with Surrealist techniques and imagery were the German Max Ernst (1891–1976), the Frenchman André Masson (1896–1987), the Spaniard Joan Miró (1893–1983), and the American Man Ray (1890–1976).
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/hd/surr/hd_surr.htm (929 words)

	DAWN - Opinion; 18 April 2005
		Pakistan is engaging India in a peaceful composite dialogue, not an arms race, to resolve the decades-old Kashmir dispute as well as other differences.
		Pakistan therefore needs to broaden the base of its cooperation with the US to encompass as many mutually beneficial activities, just as India has done with telling effect.
		Pakistan’s leaders have finally understood that India is forging ahead because its private sector has made available to it a very large number of English-knowing engineers, scientists, technologists and managers.
	www.dawn.com /2005/04/18/op.htm (5435 words)

	Surrealism - Surrealist Art Movement
		Although Breton initially responded rather negatively to the subject of music with his essay "Silence is Golden," later surrealists have been interested in, and found parallels to surrealism in, the improvisation of jazz (as alluded to above), and the blues (surrealists such as Paul Garon have written articles and full-length books on the subject).
		Surrealist films such as Un chien andalou and L'Âge d'Or by Luis Buñuel have also been produced.
		He has never participated in the surrealist movement or in any surrealist activity, but there are arguably some aspects of many of his films that are of surrealist interest.
	linkism.com /visual_artists/famous-artists/surrealism/surrealism.htm (1012 words)

	The Hindu : International / India & World : Pakistan piqued at plot report
		India and Pakistan have put in place a mechanism to exchange information and assistance in cases of counter-terrorism, in which cross-country links are found.
		Afrasiab, Pakistan found that in the run-up to January 26 (Republic Day) every year, reports appeared in India on the possibility of terrorist attacks "with some groundless and bottomless relevance" to Islamabad.
		On December 14, India and Pakistan signed a shipping protocol allowing their ships to pick up third country cargo and international vessels to ply between Indian and Pakistani ports.
	www.hindu.com /2006/12/24/stories/2006122404361000.htm (410 words)

	The Daily Star: Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		He has used pastiche and montage as technique to produce a kind of surrealistic poetry that is entirely new and novel.
		Collectively taken, the '30s poets undoubtedly constituted the most influential group of poets in the post-Rabindranath era and it's sign of their literary ability that 70 years on, Bangali poets have not yet successfully shaken off their structural influence.
		A number of galleries in the UK are co-ordinating their efforts and energies to host four separate exhibitions of art work from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Shrilanka in the summer of 2002.
	www.thedailystar.net /dailystarnews/200205/11/n2051109.htm (2980 words)

	Hua Hin Observer : Hua Hin news, Hua Hin information, Hua Hin guides and Hua Hin attractions
		For many Surrealists, this orientation toward transcending everyday reality toward one that incorporates the imaginative and the unconscious has manifested itself in the intent to bring about personal, cultural, political and social revolution, sometimes conceived or described as a complete transformation of life by freedom, poetry, love, and sexuality.
		In addition to Surrealist ideas that are grounded in the ideas of Hegel, Marx and Freud, surrealism is seen by its advocates as being inherently dynamic and as dialectic in its thought.
		Surrealists have also drawn on sources as seemingly diverse as Clark Ashton Smith, Montague Summers, Fantomas, The Residents, Bugs Bunny, comic strips, the obscure poet Samuel Greenberg and the hobo writer and humorist T-Bone Slim.
	www.observergroup.net /regulars.htm (11161 words)

	Khaleej Times - Online
		The group, alleged to have links with the Al Qaeda network of Osama bin Laden, is a top suspect in the abduction and murder of Wall Street Journalreporter Pearl, as well as the killings of four American oil workers in Karachi in 1997.
		The centre said it was warning all tankers approaching ports in the Middle East, Pakistan and Indonesia to be aware of the threat posed by terrorists.
		China has faced accusations from rights groups that it is trying to stamp out nationalist and religious sentiment among Uighurs and discriminates against them in employment and education.
	www.khaleejtimes.co.ae /ktarchive/310103/theworld.htm (8919 words)

	The Arts
		Gabriel Rivera reveals in his work ‘Cuauxochiti; a surrealist landscape in which the key element is a pole decorated with flowers and colorful flags; all reminiscent of her childhood dreams.
		Gulgee returned to Pakistan, after a short spell in Sweden, with the ambition to start a career that was close to his heart.
		Showing a group of ordinary men and women, sitting by the road side, he points out their body language, expressing the travail and despair of the poor.
	www.newagebd.com /2006/mar/17/arts.html (4944 words)

	The Hindu : International : That surrealist conundrum and controversy
		The surrealist conundrum would perhaps have delighted Marcel Duchamp, the French Dadaist who caused outrage in 1917 when he signed a porcelain urinal ``R Mutt,'' christened it Fountain and declared it art.
		He was arrested and later given a three-month suspended sentence and told to pay the Pompidou Centre Euro 14,000 to repair the crack and Euro 200,000 in damages.
		But far from protecting France from the ravages of a surrealist saboteur, the ruling has sparked a debate on the value of lavatories.
	www.hindu.com /2006/12/24/stories/2006122400481800.htm (436 words)

	New York University \| Bobst Library: Theatre Audio-Video Collection -- Puppetry and Folk Drama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Some of their centuries-old war dances, which 300 years ago began to incorporate stories from the Ramayana, are shown here, as well as a demonstration of their various characterizations of animals and gods.
		Oba Koso, which translates "The King did not hang," is one of the most popular folk legends of Nigeria, and tells the story of a King who struggles against armed rivals and magicians and is finally transformed into a god.
		After interviewing the women in the fields, the group analyses its findings on conditions in the sugar belt and the scenario for a play emerges.
	library.nyu.edu /research/perform/Puppetry.html (2014 words)

	Student Travel Information & Discounts - Events: Magritte Museum (Magritte Museum, Brussels, Belgium)
		For 24 years of his life Magritte formulated and developed his surrealist art from his small, unprepossesing house at 135 Rue Esseghem,where he lived with his wife Georgette.
		Magritte was part of a small group of poets and writers that included Paul Nougé and Camille Goemans.
		These individuals spearheaded the Belgian surrealist movement and sought to re-create the world on a new basis by subverting the real, day-to-day world.
	www.istc.org /sisp/index.htm?fx=event&event_id=111927 (322 words)

	The enigma of Dali - Deccan Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Dali was admitted into the Surrealist Group led by Andre Breton and met Gala Eluard, a Russian emigrant and wife of the surrealist poet Paul Eluard.
		Dali’s deviation from the surrealist conventions and his open support to General Franco infuriated the surrealists and he was expelled from the group.
		Despite his expulsion, his works were included in surrealist exhibitions and, by and large, he was considered to be the torchbearer of the movement.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/jan092005/ac5.asp (1287 words)

	Lucie Awards 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Born in Chanteloup, Cartier-Bresson started painting in 1923 and began to photograph in 1931, met Tériade, the editor of Verve magazine and frequented members of the French surrealist movement.
		In 1945 he photographed and covered the liberation of Paris with a group of professional journalists before filming the 1946 documentary "Le Retour" (The Return) and spending a year in the US to complete a "posthumous" exhibition initiated by New York's Museum of Modern Art out of a belief that he was dead.
		In 1947 he founded Magnum Photos with Bill Vandivert, Robert Capa, George Rodger and David Seymour "Chim", then spent three years in India, Burma, Pakistan, Indonesia and China (during the last six months of the Kuomintang and the first six months of the People's Republic of China).
	www.lucieawards.com /03/bio/Cartier-Bresson.html (366 words)

	getPakistan: Frida Kahlo
		Another visitor to Mexico at this time, one who would gladly have had a love affair with Kahlo but for the fact that she was not attracted to him, was the leading figure of the Surrealist Group, André Breton.
		Breton arrived in 1938 and was enchanted with Mexico, which he found to be a 'naturally surrealist' country, and with Kahlo's painting.
		Later, she was to be vehement in her denials that she had ever been a true Surrealist.
	www.getpakistan.com /home/Art/Frida_Kahlo/index.htm (1786 words)

	Unrealpolitik: Why Are These Hawks So Naïve?
		Policies toward Pakistan helped fuel the 1971 bloodbath in Bangladesh, and unqualified support for Indonesia's Suharto helped lead to another bloodbath in East Timor.
		This comes on the heel of dozens of surrealist, cut-and-paste "democracy is messy" diatribes from our supposedly hard-nosed Secretary of Defense.
		Incoherence aside, this supposedly "hard headed" group was wrong in every way about how the war in Iraq would turn out.
	www.commondreams.org /views06/0801-23.htm (1031 words)

	Daily Excelsior... World
		Pakistan’s application would hardly be accepted as long as it continues to render financial, military and other help to Taliban regime in Afghanistan, official news agency Itar-Tass said quoting unnamed experts.
		Russia has sent to the UN sanctions committee a detailed report about Pakistan’s help to Taliban and existence of camps in Afghanistan for training Islamic militants for terrorist activities in central Asian states and Russia’s northern caucasus, they said.
		Pakistan is seeking membership of Shanghai five group of Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrghyzistan and Tajikistan, initially set up for confidence building along the former Sino-Soviet border.
	www.dailyexcelsior.com /01apr26/inter.htm (2570 words)

	Barbara Gross Galerie: Charlotte Schleiffert and Zachary Wollard
		Schleiffert combines images of women in Pakistan and Somalia, scenes from prisons in Afghanistan, newspaper quotes, and abstract motifs.
		In 2004 the Boymans van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam honored her with a solo show and catalogue, and she was nominated for the Premio di Golfo Award at the Biennale Europea Arti Visive in La Spezia, Italy.
		Group shows, 2004/05: Secrets of the ‘90s, Selections from the Collection of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; Museum of Modern Art, Arnhem; Netherlands; Kunsthaus Dresden, Germany.
	www.artnet.com /event/83010/charlotte-schleiffert-and-zachary-wollard.html (789 words)

	Nobel person with a noble gift
		Lady Nadira Naipaul, herself a Muslim from Pakistan, has expressed outrage at the falsehoods and calumny hurled against her husband by the harpies and cyclops Third World rectitude.
		She referred to the screams of women in Pakistani prisons, tortured by jailers whose political masters are routinely described as moderate by the great and good of the West.
		And have the adversaries of V.S.Naipaul, she asked, ever stood with a group of crusading women in the High Court of Pakistan it is women only, men are too frightened to attend to face fierce mullahs crying for the death of a terrified 12-year-old Christian boy accused of blasphemy?
	www.blonnet.com /2001/10/22/stories/042244np.htm (1433 words)

	Paramjit Singh
		He was the founder member of 'The Unknown', a group of young painters and sculptors based in Delhi.
		Paramjit landscapes, with their loaded silence evocative of the other worldly, became over the years, a distinct mystical utterance in pictorial terms.
		The esoteric in his landscapes was perhaps young Paramjit response to the mystery in tensions between the deep pictorial space and the sharp shadows of inanimate objects in the picture metafisica, a short-lived school in modem Italian art, and to the later Surrealist paintings.
	www.contemporaryindianart.com /paramjit_singh.htm (368 words)

	Asia Times Online :: Asian news hub providing the latest news and analysis from Asia
		He is dismissed by many as a maker of party goods, but hailed by some as a surrealist genius.
		The first round of local elections in Pakistan has been highly rewarding for President General Pervez Musharraf, effectively laying the foundations at the grass-roots level for him to consolidate his position.
		But it is the weakest group of post-Saddam Iraq - the Sunnis - who have the wherewithal, and the will, to push their agenda.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/archive/8_26_2005.html (1466 words)

	East Asian Art & Archaeology - Newsletter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		This group exhibit of photographs depicts the relationship between the paradoxical nature of photographic image making and the elusive nature of dreams.
		Ranging from early Surrealist photography to contemporary work and encompassing photographers from around the world, this exhibition is a visual excursion into the carnival of the mind.
		Sandhage's photographic portraits of the Afghan people were taken in 1977, a few months before an installment of a new pro Communist government.
	www.umich.edu /~hartspc/NEAAA/issue70/members/exhibitions/articles/70ny_31.html (111 words)

	French police wary of claim in attack - The Boston Globe
		Speaking following talks with Karzai and after the Pakistan military said it had killed four foreign militants in an area bordering Afghanistan, Musharraf said the army was operating very strongly against Al Qaeda and the militants were on the run.
		He said there was a possibility they were crossing into Afghanistan, but no one should doubt Pakistan's intentions and that of its security agencies.
		Police closed the Helsinki exhibition in June and impounded 450 graphic works, purportedly by the Spanish surrealist painter, after art collectors complained that the pieces they bought were fake.
	www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2004/08/24/french_police_wary_of_claim_in_attack?mode=PF (575 words)

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