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	Surrealist Movement in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Surrealist Movement in the United States was started by the Chicago Surrealist Group as a means of including many of its scattered participants from coast to coast on collective statements and in collective activities.
		Only recently have other surrealist groups formed in the United States, such as the Wisconsin Surrealist Group, the Portland Surrealist Group in Oregon, the Seattle Surrealist Group, the Houston Surrealist Group, the Blue Feathers group in Minnesota, the Honolulu Surrealist Group, the Surrealist Group in St. Louis, and a collection of surrealists in San Francisco.
		The Surrealist Movement in the United States should be distinguished from "the surrealist movement in the United States," which describes any surrealist activity in the United States, as opposed to the organisation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Surrealist_Movement_in_the_United_States (237 words)

	Surrealism
		Although surrealism is related to the earlier Dada movement, and many of its initial members came from Dada, it is significantly broader in scope than the Dada movement.
		Although it is often falsely stated that surrealism ended either during or shortly after the Second World War, or with the death of Breton in 1966, the 1960s in fact saw a dramatic expansion of international surrealism, including the founding of the Surrealist Movement in the United States[?] by Franklin and Penelope Rosemont[?].
		Other surrealist groups were later founded in the United States, such as the Portland Surrealist Group[?] of Oregon, and the Houston Surrealist Group[?].
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/su/Surrealism.html (1184 words)

	Fifth Estate review of Surrealist Subversions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Work, capitalism, the state, white supremacy, patriarchy and sexual oppression, religion, ecocide, imperialist war, including the so-called 'war on terrorism,' and last but not least the rule of socially confined superego consciousness over everyday life, are condemned as upholders of exploitation and misery.
		As the 1989 editorial "Now's the Time" states, "We are living, precariously enough, in a strange place called the United States, a nation founded on genocide, and whose government, the most murderous in history, is the deadliest enemy of human freedom in the world today...
		The international surrealist movement continues to mobilize energies for anarchists and all oppressed peoples to overcome capitalist-hierarchical civilization, along with nuclear-armed, oil-hungry, murdering elites and their immobilizing cultural distractions.
	www.autonomedia.org /surrealistsubversions/review.html (977 words)

	surrealism - Anarchopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Surrealism is both an artistic and political movement aimed at the liberation of the human being from the constraints of capitalism, the state, and the cultural forces that limit the reign of the imagination.
		The movement developed in France in the wake of WWI with Andre Breton as its main theorist and poet.
		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.
	eng.anarchopedia.org /surrealism (1123 words)

	Surrealism
		An organized Surrealist movement began in the early 1920s; the publication of André Bretons Surrealist Manifesto in 1924 is an important early landmark in the movements history.
		As with many movements of the period, including Expressionism, its diagnosis of the "problem" of the realism and capitalist civilisation is the restrictive overlay of false rationality, including social and academic convention, on the free functioning of the instinctual urges within the mind.
		Many surrealist artists regarded their work as an expression of the philosophical movement first and foremost, and André Breton was explicit in his belief that Surrealism was first and foremost a revolutionary movement.
	www.keywordmage.net /su/surrealism.html (3590 words)

	RACE TRAITOR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Surrealist intervention in this domain has always emphasized the active imagination, in keeping with surrealism's fundamental aim: the realization of poetry in everyday life.
		With rare exceptions, however, the organizations that currently pass themselves off as the "environmental movement" in this country are as devoted to white supremacy (and to capitalism) as the giant corporations whose depredations they pretend to oppose.
		As surrealists, we are especially interested in how the "white problem" turns up in language, images, myth, symbols, popular culture, science, everyday life, the whole field of human expression.
	www.postfun.com /racetraitor/features/surrealist.html (737 words)

	A few months ago I posted an article about "Surrealism, Freud and Trotsky" (http://www
		The Paris Surrealist Group and the extreme left of the French Communist Party were drawn together in 1925 by their support of Abd-el-Krim, leader of the Rif uprising against French colonialism in Morocco.
		Obviously, the surrealists and the leftwing of the French CP were onto something when they drew attention to "Murderous Humanitarianism," especially in the context of a brutal campaign against an earlier revolt of Islamic peoples.
		I tend to think of the revolutionary movement as the equivalent for our class of the vast array of institutions that govern and enforce the bourgeoisie's class rule, from the army to the CIA to the various think tanks that promote the inevitability of capitalism.
	www.columbia.edu /~lnp3/mydocs/culture/american_surrealism.htm (2229 words)

	Surrealism - Surrealist Art Movement
		From the late 1930s on most members of the movement have found Dalí's painting to have had little significance for surrealism, and Dalí to have moved further and further away from the movement.
		In this sense, surrealism is not specifically the privilege of self-identified "surrealists" or those sanctioned by Breton, rather, it refers to a range of creative acts of revolt and efforts to liberate the imagination.
		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.
	www.linkism.com /visual_artists/famous-artists/surrealism/surrealism.htm (1012 words)

	Surrealism-USA
		The Surrealist Movement in the United States includes the Chicago Surrealist Group and its many participants scattered from coast to coast.
		Surrealist Women: An International Anthology, edited with introductions by Penelope Rosemont, is the first book in any language of writings by the many women who have taken part in organized surrealism from its origins to today.
		Surrealist Experiences:1001 Dawns, 221 Midnights by Penelope Rosemont (Black Swan Press, 2000) focuses on fortuitous encounters, including the author's adventures in the magnetic fields of "pure psychic automatism." The book collects articles and essays by Rosemont from surrealist journals throughout the world, plus several published now for the first time.
	www.surrealistmovement-usa.org (724 words)

	Surrealist Documents: Michael Vandelaar
		The surrealist painter, Roberto Matta, introduced the younger adherents of the surrealist movement to the bop recordings of Parker, Monk, Powell, Gillespie and others, all of which were received with the utmost enthusiasm.
		surrealist's first tract and the nickname of Chicago certainly appear in a new light — a light which exudes from the oneiric solitude in the eye of a crystal ball, endlessly and indefatigably exploring the possibilities of a desirable future of desire supreme — a veritable weather forecast of the Pleasure Principle.
		The surrealists in the U.S. have from the very beginning stressed the vitality and importance of the fl musical evidence, and its growing influence on the evolution of the movement is reaffirmed at every turn of its thought.
	www.surrealcoconut.com /surrealist_documents/vandelaar.htm (3828 words)

	Avant pictionary (Metro Times Detroit) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Though for most of us the origins of the 20th century movement are shrouded in mists of the past, we often sling the adjective “surreal” around as a marker for weirdness, perversion or any idea that goes out beyond the limits of the normal (whatever that is).
		But it’s also true that surrealist works are a rarity on the art market, with most of the avant-garde classics (a nice oxymoron) in the hands of major collections outside the United States.
		The surrealists developed a whole body of strategies and approaches to the writing of poetry and the making of art — automatic writing, dream writing, collage, exquisite corpse collaborations, etc. — and Sakolsky’s anthology presents a healthy (or unhealthy, as the case may be) selection of such practices (e.g.
	www.metrotimes.com /editorial/story.asp?id=4410 (616 words)

	Surrealist Subversions: Foreword (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Although these thinkers and movements are not generally regarded as anarchist, Sakolsky characteristically has discerned anarchist elements, or at least anarchist implications, in each and all of them.
		Throughout Surrealist Subversions, Sakolsky rightly puts the emphasis on surrealist diversity--the myriad expressions of surrealism in daily life, politics, the arts, and the seemingly endless ways in which the movement has renewed itself again and again, all around the world, and over a long period of time.
		Thus he deliberately avoids the danger that the Romanian surrealists Gherasim Luca and Dolfi Trost warned against in their 1945 Dialectic of Dialectic, and which they called the "anthological deviation"--the reifying tendency to regard collective publications issued at particular historic moments as "definitive" statements for all time.
	www.autonomedia.org /surrealistsubversions/excerpt.html (1199 words)

	Franklin Rosemont - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Franklin Rosemont (born October 2, 1943) was co-founder of the Surrealist Movement in the United States.
		His father, Henry, was a labor activist, and mother, Sally, a jazz musician.
		He is the author of the poetry collection The Morning of a Machine Gun: Twenty Poems and Documents.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Franklin_Rosemont (202 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Forecast Is Hot!: Tracts & Other Collective Declarations Of The Surrealist Movement In The United ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 1966, with the support of Andre Breton, the first indigenous Surrealist Group in the US was organized in Chicago.
		This book is a compendium of collective declarations - texts in which surrealists as a group have intervened in particular political or cultural affairs and controversies.
		Surrealist solutions, the editors argue, are not only still viable, but are more urgent than ever.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0941194450 (317 words)

	Surrealismo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		1970) states that "the death of André Breton in 1966 marked the end of surrealism as an organized movement." However, some who knew Breton, and were part of groups he founded or approved continued to be active until well after his death.
		Surrealists believe that "non-Western" cultures also provide a continued source of inspiration for surrealist activity because some may strike up a better balance between instrumental reason and the imagination in flight than Western culture.
		In the 1920s several composers were influenced by surrealism, or by individuals in the surrealist movment.
	dks.thing.net /Surrealismo.html (3929 words)

	Books for Progressive Readers
		In his essay in the massive 742-page tome Surrealist Subversions, Ron Sakolsky says that despite Algren's skepticism a healthy surrealist movement had been blooming in the Midwestern city since the mid-60s.
		Among the many other Chicago surrealist celebrities chronicled here is Slim Brundage, king of the soap-box at Bug House Square, IWW (Wobbly) labor organizer and janitor of the dadaesque College of Complexes.
		Yes, it’s dark now, but many of us recall a United States where there was no standing in court for environmental issues, much less a mention in the mainstream news media.
	www.heartlandcafe.com /journal/jrnl_47/j47_ar01.htm (3106 words)

	History of Surrealism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Veristic Surrealists, saw 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 Veristic surrealists of today recognize the difficulties that their movement has faced during the second half of the Twentieth Century as it attempted to become a major cultural force, like modernism had.
		The United States, a country in which the business community never had to share its power with the aristocracy, wholeheartedly embraced abstraction and modernism.
	www.bway.net /~monique/history.htm (1646 words)

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		Penelope’s Surrealist Women anthology (University of Texas, 1998) was the first book of its kind in any language.
		Since the first Chicago Surrealist Group Show at the Gallery Bugs Bunny in 1968, the Rosemonts have participated in many important surrealist exhibitions in France, England, Mexico, Portugal, the Czech Republic and other countries, and helped organize the massive World Surrealist Exhibition in Chicago in 1976.
		Surrealist Subversions: Rants, Writings & Images by the Surrealist Movement in the United States, edited & introduced by Ron Sakolsky.
	www.indymedia.org /pt/2005/03/870955.shtml (802 words)

	Tajan - News and Press Releases: The Julien Levy Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It will constitute a particularly significant event in the Modern Art world, and an hommage to the Surrealist movement as well as to Julien Levy and his wife Jean.
		His intellectual and artistic bonding with the Surrealist artists was both immediate and complete, and Julien Levy’s new mission was to enable his New World compatriots to discover these Modern Art pioneers.
		Some of the works from the collection are currently on a touring show in the United States and will be the object of a second event to take place in the fall 2006.
	www.tajan.com /en/news/cp-2004-10-05-levy.asp (488 words)

	SURREALISM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Surrealism grew principally out of the earlier Dada movement, which before World War I produced works of anti-art that deliberately defied reason; but Surrealism's emphasis is not on negation but on positive expression.
		The movement represents a reaction against what its members see as the destruction wrought by the "rationalism" that had guided European culture and politics in the past and that had culminated in the horrors of War.
		He defined genius in terms of accessibility to this normally untapped realm, which, he believed, could be attained by poets and painters alike.
	www.seaboarcreations.com /sindex/surrealism.htm (113 words)

	LiP \| Feature \| Writing the Marvelous: Surrealism, Revolutionary Poetics and the Contagion of Elephants
		The movement’s overarching aspiration has always been to reduce and ultimately resolve the disabling contradictions of modern society – between the real and the imaginary, conscious and unconscious, dream and action – thus pointing the way toward a non-repressive civilization.
		Of the many so-called major avant-garde movements that emerged in Europe during the first half of the 20th century – Fauvism, Cubism, and their sequels – Surrealism is the only one in which women and people of color have participated actively and in sizable numbers.
		For Surrealists, poetry is not only the “philosopher’s stone” effecting marvelous transmutations, it is also the elixir of life with an infinite capacity for renewal.
	www.lipmagazine.org /articles/featrosemont_elephants.shtml (1666 words)

	Wikinfo \| 1966 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		January 12 - Lyndon Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended.
		July 26 - Lord Gardiner issues the Practice Statement in the House of Lords stating that the House is not bound to follow its own previous precedent.
		Surrealist Movement in the United States founded by Franklin and Penelope Rosemont.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=1966 (1330 words)

	Amazon.com: Surrealist Subversions: Rants, Writings & Images by the Surrealist Movement in the United States: Books: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Surrealism, to me, and to my comrades, is not some embalmed artistic 'ism'-it is a dynamic force, aimed at drastically changing the world through the unfettered mind's power.
		The criticisms of the above 'reader' are relatively light compared to the onslaught of misinformation and slander the surrealist movement throughout history, and especially in this country has been forced to endure; a sign of the repressive, anti-poetic and miserabilist world global capitalism and co. have created.
		As one of the founders of the Surrealist Movement in the US, Franklin Rosemont said, "What it remains for surrealism to do far outweighs what surrealism has done."
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1570271224?v=glance (731 words)

	RACE TRAITOR: For Tyree Guyton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		by the Surrealist Movement in the U.S. I see art as a way of saying, seeing, and feeling all the things I never had a chance to do when I was coming up.
		In an exploitative society, the barriers between art and community - between the practice of poetry and daily life - are indispensable to those who hold the power.
		Originally issued as a poster/tract, this statement was later endorsed by the Surrealist Groups in Sao Paulo, Madrid, Paris and other cities, as well as by several U.S. intellectuals, including Dennis Brutus, Diane DiPrima, David Finkel, B. Friedman, Archie Green and Douglas Kellner.
	www.postfun.com /racetraitor/features/tyree.html (880 words)

	Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Bibliography: Black Music & the American Surrealists
		Perhaps an even better option is to visit the web site of The Surrealist Movement in the United States.
		This bibliography is for information and does not constitute an endorsement of the surrealists' position, about which I have mixed feelings.
		Some of their propaganda about surrealism and fl music, such as Garon's book on the blues, repels me. The issue of surrealism in European and non-fl experimental music is another matter and requires another bibliography.
	www.autodidactproject.org /bib/surrmubi.html (419 words)

	Exquisite Corpses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Surrealism, an always-stormy alliance of poets, writers, artists, and filmmakers that, beginning in the early 1920s, sought to release the powers of the unconscious mind in service of astonishing new art and political revolution, didn't actually topple any governments (although vintage surrealist slogans were scrawled on many a Paris wall during the May, 1968 upheavals).
		Bry, who somehow combines surreal life with medical studies at Washington University in St. Louis, is more interested in the visual than the literary side of the movement, and participates in a number of collaborative graphic projects with other artists on the Net, in the spirit of surrealist collective composition.
		In his manifesto, "The Heroic Epoch of the Virtual Surrealists," Merchant claims that "both mystical and marvelous spaces inhabit the same regions of the mind as cyberspace," and urges other cyber-surrealists to join him in a celebration of "the holographic infinity of the human mind.
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