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Sussex (and) Surrealism
Dr Sam Cooper
University of Sussex
S.Cooper@Sussex.ac.uk
Picasso at Muddles Green, near Chiddingly, 1950
Selected Surrealist Manifestos and Groups1924 France
Yugoslavia1926 Belgium
Hungary1928 Romania1929 Czechoslovakia1934 Egypt1936 United Kingdom1938 Chile1940 Mexico
‘Surrealist Manifesto’, Andre Breton (1924)
‘We are still living under the reign of logic.’
‘Under the pretence of civilisation and progress, we have managed to banish from the mind everything that may rightly or wrongly be termed superstition or fancy; forbidden is any kind of search for truth which is not in accordance with accepted practices.’
‘I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality, if one may so speak.’
‘And the Seventh Dream is the Dream of Isis’, David Gascoyne (1933) white curtains of infinite fatiguedominating the starborn heritage of the colonies of St Franciswhite curtains of tortured destiniesinheriting the calamities of the plagues of the desertencourage the waistlines of women to expandand the eyes of men to enlarge like pocket-camerasteach children to sin at the age of fiveto cut out the eyes of their sisters with nail-scissorsto run into the streets and offer themselves to unfrocked prieststeach insects to invade the deathbeds of rich spinstersand to engrave the foreheads of their footmen with purple signsfor the year is open the year is completethe year is full of unforeseen happeningsand the time of earthquakes is at hand
‘Automatic Drawing’, Andre Masson (1924)
Psychic Automatism
‘Exquisite Corpse’ drawing by Man Ray, Yves Tanguy, Joan Miro and Max Morise (1927)
The Surrealist Revolution (1924-1929)
The Politics of Surrealism
Surrealism in the Service of the Revolution(1930-1933)
‘The Surrealist Muse… does not often descend upon English soil; for she is terrified of the poet laureate, the censor, the Conservative Association, buy British goods, empire day, do your Christmas shopping early, the Queen’s doll’s house, sales on now, why not wear the Boston garter?’
Edouard Roditi, ‘A New Reality’ (1929)
David Gascoyne’s A Short Survey of Surrealism (1935)with cover art by Max Ernst
David Gascoyne
Gascoyne in 1951
Poster by Max Ernst
International Surrealist Exhibition 1936
Exhibition organising committee, includingHerbert Read fourth from right, back row.
Humphrey Jennings
Graffham in Penny Journey (1938)
Lee Miller
Miller’s first Vogue cover, 15th March 1927‘Solarized’ portrait of Miller by Man Ray, c.1929
Surrealism and Camouflage
Penrose’s ‘startle’ slide. Lee Miller camouflaged, c.1940
First World War ‘dazzle ship’
Dummy tank, 1942
Edward James
‘Not to be Reproduced’ and ‘The Pleasure Principle’, both portraits of James by Rene Magritte (1937)
Seaside Surrealism
‘Swanage’, Paul Nash (c.1936)
Sweet shop window, BrightonRoland Penrose, 1937
Lee Miller and Fortune-Telling Slot Machine,Brighton
Roland Penrose, 1937
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