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	Surrealism, surrealism painting, surrealism history, surrealism artist, surrealism in art, surrealism collage, ...
		Surrealists diagnosis of the "problem" of the realism and capitalist civilisation is a restrictive overlay of false rationality, including social and academic convention, on the free functioning of the instinctual urges of the human mind.
		Surrealist philosophy connects with the theories of psychiatrist Sigmund Freud.
		Many Surrealist artists regarded their work as an expression of the philosophical movement first and foremost, and Breton was explicit in his belief that Surrealism was first and foremost a revolutionary movement.
	www.reviewpainting.com /surrealism.htm (3863 words)

	Surrealism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Surrealists diagnosis of the "problem" of the realism and capitalist civilisation is a restrictive overlay of false rationality, including social and academic convention, on the free functioning of the instinctual urges of the human mind.
		Many Surrealist artists regarded their work as an expression of the philosophical movement first and foremost, and Breton was explicit in his belief that Surrealism was first and foremost a revolutionary movement.
		Surrealists have also drawn on sources as seemingly diverse as Clark Ashton Smith, Montague Summers, Fantomas, Bugs Bunny, comic strips, the obscure poet Samuel Greenberg and the hobo writer and humourist T-Bone Slim.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Surrealism (3992 words)

	Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea, to the south by Austria and Switzerland, to the west by France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, and to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic.
		Germany and Berlin were occupied and partitioned by the Allies, with West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany) and West Berlin being controlled by the Western allies and East Germany (German Democratic Republic - GDR) and East Berlin by the Soviet Union.
		West Germany benefitted from the American Marshall Plan for the reconstruction of Europe after the war and was a founding state of the European Union.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Germany (5501 words)

	Fifth Estate review of Surrealist Subversions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In his introduction, anthologist Ron Sakolsky gives us a comprehensive overview of that first groups' development, from the Roosevelt University Anti-Poetry Club and RU Wobblies, the Rosemont's meeting with Andre Breton and their months-long participation in the Paris Surrealist Group, through the infamous Gallery Bugs Bunny and Gallery Black Swan on up to the present.
		Sakolsky illustrates how the Chicago Surrealist Group and its affiliates from coast to coast who compose the larger Surrealist Movement in the US have always had an organic, reciprocal relationship with not only workers' struggles and the anarchist movement but also a wide variety of heretical and libratory currents.
		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 - Surrealist Art Movement
		André Breton's Surrealist Manifesto of 1924 and the publication of the magazine La Révolution Surréaliste ("The Surrealist Revolution") marked the beginning of the movement as a public agitation.
		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.
		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).
	www.linkism.com /visual_artists/famous-artists/surrealism/surrealism.htm (1012 words)

	ArtLex on Surrealist Art
		Influenced by the theories of the pioneer of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud (German, 1856-1939), the images found in surrealist works are as confusing and startling as those of dreams.
		Surrealist works can have a realistic, though irrational style, precisely describing dreamlike fantasies, as in the works of René Magritte (Belgian, 1898-1967), Salvador Dalí (Spanish, 1904-1988), Yves Tanguy (French, 1900-1955), and Alfred Pellan (Canadian, 1906-1988).
		This sculpture is a classic example of the Surrealist practice of juxtaposing otherwise unrelated everyday items.
	www.artlex.com /ArtLex/s/surrealism.html (1568 words)

	A Literary History of the American West (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It is new by comparison with West Coast poetry, as well, by virtue of the fact that whereas radical West Coast poetry generally proceeds along anarchistic-philosophical lines of thought, this derives from a version of Jeffersonian, agrarian idealism.
		The poem is a meditation upon two ways of life: that of the migrants to the West with their square houses and straight-line mental habits; and that of the American natives with their round houses, their sense of space curving, and their sense of their lives curving into and with that space.
		Inland regions of the West seem not to have attracted his attention–except at a certain distance and at a rapid speed, as in the wonderful poem of a coast-to-coast meditative train journey titled "Starting from San Francisco" (1961).
	www2.tcu.edu /depts/prs/amwest/html/wl1202.html (7892 words)

	West central Florida information - Sarasota, Bradenton, New Port Richey, Hudson
		In Central West Florida, families can visit world-famous attractions, meet friendly creatures of all shapes and sizes, marvel at intriguing cultural treasures and explore historical sites hundreds of years old.
		Encompassing the southern portion of Florida's Nature Coast as well as three of the world's top beaches, the region is teeming with nature-based recreational activities.
		Known as "Florida's Cultural Coast," Sarasota is home to Florida's official state art museum and state theater as well as a host of international film festivals, jazz clubs, dance companies and art galleries.
	www.mrvilla.co.uk /west_central_florida_info.html (5996 words)

	Chronology of West Coast Surrealism, Canada, Surrealism, British Columbia, Melmoth, Canadian West Coast Hermetics, etc.
		The west coast, where there is a natural surreality in the landscape, has long been the home of many artists whose work draws from surrealistic sources.
		Pailthorpe was a member of the British Surrealist Group and both she and her husband practiced automatism in painting and drawing.
		Other artists, many of them working in the area of surrealist art, continued working outside the formal west coast group, but their natural inclination to the magical and to the surreal, places them in the orbit of this chronology.
	www.greggsimpson.com /Chronowelcome.htm (887 words)

	West central Florida information - Sarasota, Bradenton, New Port Richey, Hudson
		In Central West Florida, families can visit world-famous attractions, meet friendly creatures of all shapes and sizes, marvel at intriguing cultural treasures and explore historical sites hundreds of years old.
		Encompassing the southern portion of Florida's Nature Coast as well as three of the world's top beaches, the region is teeming with nature-based recreational activities.
		Known as "Florida's Cultural Coast," Sarasota is home to Florida's official state art museum and state theater as well as a host of international film festivals, jazz clubs, dance companies and art galleries.
	www.mrvilla.com /mr_villa_west_central_florida_information.htm (5981 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)

	Biographies Index A-L
		Owners of his paintings are a fiercely loyal group who delight in sharing their interest with friends and at private showings in their homes around the world.
		Surrealist Movement in 1934, purportedly for his fascination with Hitler, Dali continued to create supreme examples of Surrealistic art for many decades to come.
		In 1929, he signed a contract with Pierre Loeb, then the Surrealists' preferred dealer, and this was followed by an invitation to join the surrealist group.
	www.artloft.com /bioal.htm (11482 words)

	Gregg Simpson
		was born in Ottawa in 1947, but moved immediately to the west coast with his family.
		In 1971, supported by a Canada Council grant and a letter of introduction from William Rubin of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Simpson went to Paris and eventually organized the first European touring exhibition of west coast art.
		This exhibition, entitled Canadian West Coast Hermetics, was seen in Paris by French art historian, Jose Pierre who also saw and wrote about subsequent exhibitions during the 1970's that featured the artist and his colleagues in the West Coast Surrealist group.
	www.abstract-art.com /abstraction/l3_more_artists/ma96_simpson.html (243 words)

	Art in America: West Coast Surreal - various artists, UCLA-Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California
		Recently, with only a few overlapping inclusions, curator Susan Ehrlich gathered a fascinating crew of mostly lesser-known West Coast practitioners in "Pacific Dreams: Currents of Surrealism and Fantasy in California Art, 1934-1957" at the UCLA-Armand Hammer Museum.
		Despite the relative isolation of California from art-world centers during these years, West Coast artists were eager to stay abreast of international currents and avidly followed the development of Dadaism and Surrealism through catalogues and magazines.
		Underlying the L.A. surrealist work was the presence of the renowned connection of Walter and Louise Arensberg, whose tenure in Los Angeles (1927-54) roughly matched the time span of this exhibition.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1248/is_n1_v84/ai_17803655 (1328 words)

	atoposes, poetic spaces, and modern ruins: surrealist urban exploration, industrial archaeology
		Nevertheless, the West Coast images documented within surrealcoconut certainly have their share of interesting artifacts, entropic processes of nature and other mysteries of the interactive, collective unconscious psyche.
		In this respect, the urban exploration documented here takes on a surrealist dimension, in that the ruins, and the found and vandalized objects within these environments, are considered to be objects of desire, and objects of haunting.
		This part of the United States West Coast, in particular, owes much of its development to the World War 2 era, when the federal government pumped in a lot of money to further their capitalist war effort.
	www.surrealcoconut.com /urban_ruins/urban_exploration.htm#socal (2021 words)

	Surrealismo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Breton, as the central figure of the surrealist movement, not only published its most thorough explanations of its techniques, aims and ideas, but was the individual who drew in, and occasionally expelled, writers, artists and thinkers.
		According to Micheal Bell, it was at this point that the two sides of surrealistic art, what he labels automatism and veristic surrealism became more pronounced, and, according to his interpretation of events "only automatism was accepted after the war" because of its relationship to abstraction.
		In the 1920s several composers were influenced by surrealism, or by individuals in the surrealist movment.
	dks.thing.net /Surrealismo.html (3929 words)

	spain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Melilla (12.3 sq km/4.7 sq mi; resident population 55,613 in 1993), on a rocky promontory on the Rif coast, is connected with the African mainland by a narrow isthmus.
		The great mobility of the population toward the urban centers, the coast, and the islands has contributed to the diffusion of ethnic characteristics.
		Cultural groups, but not properly distinct ethnic groups, include the Castilians of central Spain, the Asturians and the Basques of Vizcaya, Álava, Guipúzcoa, and (in part) Navarra provinces in the north, the Catalans of Catalonia, the Galicians of the far northwest, and the Andalusians of the south.
	cms.westport.k12.ct.us /cmslmc/foreignlanguages/spain/spain.htm (11921 words)

	What's On in Coffs Coast on the Nort Coast of New South Wales Australia
		Coffs Coast is the only place in Australia where you will find one particular type of Wallaby.
		Whether you’re a spectator or a competitor, the popular Coffs Coast Ocean Swim in February is a tremendous spectacle.
		Coffs Coast has also managed to net a couple of major tennis tournaments - the McDonalds Northern NSW Annual Tennis Open held in November and the Sawtell Seaside Tennis Championships.
	www.coffscoast.com.au /people.shtml (1991 words)

	portland imc - 2002.12.06 - Portland Surrealist Group website and bulletin
		The Portland Surrealist Group's debut bulletin, Flying Stone, can be opened as a PDF file, or read simply as an html/text-only version at the new website:
		The Portland Surrealist Group's enduring projects are to situate the ideas of surrealism into Portland's political and cultural arena, to act as a resistance to the diverse incarnations of repression, and to investigate the unbound imaginative field.
		We are interested in conversing, collaborating, and meeting local expressions of creative radical consciousness, surrealist or not.
	portland.indymedia.org /en/2002/12/36923.shtml (153 words)

	Eichler Network: Front and Center: Cool Jazz
		The same point could be made about what's come to be called West Coast Jazz (or Cool Jazz), a musical genre in which Baker, a sometime Californian, and other musicians rose in prominence during the same time period as California's mid-century modern homes.
		And the truth is that after that purported end date of 1960, the variegated elements of West Coast Jazz were absorbed by other genres that became promoted and accepted under other names, without need of regional tags.
		Cool Jazz fan and Eichler owner Cathye Smithwick first became acquainted with West Coast Jazz, and saxophonist John Coltrane's approach to ballads in the '50s and early '60s, through her husband Charlie.
	www.eichlernetwork.com /fnc_cooljazz.html (3344 words)

	Jamaican & Cuban Painters Biographies: Gallery of West Indian Art
		Errol works with a small group of painters in which he is the leader and teacher.
		Her work is also at Coyaba Resort, Mobay Hope, the Gallery of West Indian Art and Décor Gallery in Montego Bay, in Harmony Hall and Wassi Art, Ocho Rios, and at WB Framing in Kingston.
		Armando Torres was born in the province of Santa Clara in 1961.
	www.galleryofwestindianart.com /jamaicanbiographies.htm (4522 words)

	Keith Wigdor presents Surrealism Now!
		Surrealist and son of the late Ladislav Guderna, and extraordinary surrealist artist.
		Surrealist Artist from Poland representing the Surrealist Movement in Poland.
		Surrealist and Legend from Canada representing the Surrealist Movement in Canada.
	www.surrealismnow.com /surrealistshow20061.html (547 words)

	Bruno Jacobs
		It is found, to start with, in the cave paintings of Altamira in Spain or Lascaux in France, among others, with a beauty that seems to be strengthened by their old age, or even better, the secret rock paintings in northern Australia.
		In contrast to the prehistoric cave paintings from Europe and the Americas that remain at least partly enigmatic, there is still a living relationship among certain aboriginal groups with the sacral and significantly less naturalistic rock paintings so harmonically spread throughout the landscape, often in the open.
		The surrealist group in Stockholm dedicated itself in the late 1990’s at the study of various types of such “worthless” places.
	www.surrealcoconut.com /surrealist_documents/jacobs.htm (2235 words)

	Infoshop.org - MYEP - Left Communism or State Department Surrealism?
		According to Schwartz, when the IWW's west coast maritime unions were destroyed by police repression in the late 1920s, IWW seamen joined the SUP en masse, to the point where ``two-card men'' made up the majority of the union and steered it on a radical course.
		The Coast Seamen's Union was founded on a lumber pile on the Folsom Street Wharf on March 6, 1885, by radical socialists of the San Francisco-based Internation- al Workmen's Association, modeled on Marx's wing of the First International.
		Munis and his comrades were on the same side as anarchist revolutionaries in the fight against the Stalinist-led destruction of the radical workers' movement in the Republican-held regions of Spain, and against the counter-revolution led by the collaboration of the anarchist organizations and the POUM with the democratic capitalist state.
	www.infoshop.org /myep/munis_meese.html (11081 words)

	Review/Art; Being Young and Abstract Along With Pollock et al. - New York Times
		One show, "The Indian Space Painters" at Baruch College near Gramercy Park, is a well-researched excavation of a little-known group of artists whose pursuit of abstraction was as determined as the Abstract Expressionists', and a bit ahead of them, too.
		Their bright, often intricately patterned abstractions, which borrow equally from Cubism and Surrealism and from the animated, animal-based motifs of Northwest Coast Indian art, add a new chapter to the story of the art of the 1940's.
		Stylistically, these two shows go together not at all, and yet viewed in tandem, they provide a fresh sense of the artistic ideas or "issues" that were in the air in the 40's and of the ways different artists dealt with them.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CEFDF113FF935A35751C1A967958260 (683 words)

	Alexis Smith
		I don't know what the difference is between the east coast and the west coast, but I think that there are real observable differences — for example, there is a lack of reverence here for tradition and for the past.
		The people who have traditionally moved west are the people who were willing to start all over and make it on their own.
		This is an attitude that persists in the west.
	www.jca-online.com /asmith.html (5289 words)

	artnet.com: Resource Library: Halmstad group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		All had connections with Halmstad, a town on the west coast of Sweden.
		Adrian-Nilsson’s paintings were important early mutual influences for the group, as were Cubism and Neo-plasticism.
		They were the most significant exponents of Surrealism in Sweden and took part in various Surrealist exhibitions in Europe in the 1930s.
	www.artnet.com /library/03/0363/T036311.ASP (401 words)

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