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Surrealism is an artistic, cultural and intellectual movement oriented toward the liberation of the mind by emphasizing the critical and imaginative faculties of the "unconscious mind" and the attainment of a dream-like state different from, "more than", and ultimately "truer" than everyday reality: the "sur-real", or "more than real".
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 the words of André Breton, generally regarded as the founder of surrealism: "beauty will be convulsive or not at all."
At various times individual surrealists aligned themselves with communism and anarchism to advance radical political and social change, arguing that only transformed institutions of work, the family, and education could make possible a general participation to the surreal.
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Surrealism - a brief guide. http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5673
jennarmour (Jennifer Armour) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:15:05 -0000
Surrealism - a brief guide. http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5673
@NewsBusters I am a conservative blogger Ironic Surrealism v3.0 http://ironicsurrealism.blogivists.com/ What list? :)
velvethammer (Velvet Hammer) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:38:21 -0000
@NewsBusters I am a conservative blogger Ironic Surrealism v3.0 http://ironicsurrealism.blogivists.com/ What list? :)
@adamshealy oh yes you have to take your hat off to Surrealism , your nose, eyes, hands ... lol
Oblomovs (Stephen Pain) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:55:32 -0000
@adamshealy oh yes you have to take your hat off to Surrealism , your nose, eyes, hands ... lol
@Oblomovs Surrealism is best.
adamshealy (A Shealy) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:54:49 -0000
@Oblomovs Surrealism is best.
Oh art history study materials, your progression towards Dada & Surrealism syncs up so perfectly w/ my descent into sleep-deprived insanity.
haleycrain (Haley) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:16:46 -0000
Oh art history study materials, your progression towards Dada & Surrealism syncs up so perfectly w/ my descent into sleep-deprived insanity.
totally neglecting the flip animation book and jst remembered she need to write a paragraph on surrealism for tomorrow's class psssh
gheayantra (Ghea Hutanamon) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:26:30 -0000
totally neglecting the flip animation book and jst remembered she need to write a paragraph on surrealism for tomorrow's class psssh
at Leeds Central Gallery - - Groundbreaking exhibit on British Surrealism. An exhibit at the Leeds Central Gallery provided an eye-opening glimpse at a significant moment in the history of British and international Surrealism.
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Andre Breton-What is Surrealism? - A lecture given in Brussels on 1st June 1934 at a public meeting organised by the Belgian Surrealists, and issued as a pamphlet immediately afterwards
Bibliography of Surrealism - Extensive collection of books about Surrealism.
Dada and Surrealism: Texts and Extracts - comprehensive - by Gerry Carlin Mair Evans
History of Surrealism - Surrealism, surrealist, surreal, art, literature, music, dada, dadaism, and everything else.
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History of Surrealism - Good introduction to Surrealism maintained by Monica Sanchez.
Hungryflower - Surrealist painters' links and biographies, including Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo, Ana Mendieta, and Francesca Woodman.
Meta Description: [ Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo ]
Research Centre for Studies of Surrealism - Centre promotes research excellence in studies of dada and surrealism and their impact on modern thought and culture.
Surrealism - Books on the subject with details and notes
Surrealism Gallery - A small virtual gallery of artwork by a number of noted surrealist painters.
Surrealism. - A concise description of the 20th century visual arts and literary movement Surrealism at Biddington's Pedigree Provenance.
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Women Artists -- Dada and Surrealism - An excerpted chapter from Margaret Barlow's illustrated book Women Artists.
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