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The Surrealist Revolution

Revolution in the Service of the Marvelous

About Me

"Surrealism is not a new means of expression, or an easier one, nor even a metaphysics of poetry. It is a means of total liberation of the mind and of all that resembles it ... Surrealism is not a poetic form. It is a cry of the mind turning back on itself, and it is determined to break apart its fetters, even if it must be by material hammers!" - Declaration of January 27, 1925

Thanks to the common misrepresentations spread throughout the Internet and academia by individuals hoping to reorient its focus Surrealism is often misunderstood as an artistic style, a literary movement, a form of mystical escapism into a world of illusions, convenient weirdness, and a variety of other banalities.

"Perhaps the greatest danger threatening Surrealism today is the fact that because of its spread throughout the world, which was very sudden and rapid, the word found favor much faster than the idea." - André Breton, Surrealist Situation of the Object

"Surrealism, a unitary project of total revolution, is above all a method of knowledge and a way of life; it is lived far more than it is written, or written about, or drawn. Surrealism is the most exhilarating adventure of the mind, an unparalleled means of pursuing the fervent quest for freedom and true life beyond the veil of ideological appearances." - Franklin Rosemont, Andre Breton and the First Principles of Surrealism

Surrealist Groups ..:
  • Athens
  • Cantabria
  • Chicago
  • Honolulu
  • Houston
  • London
  • Madrid
  • Netherlands
  • Paris
  • Portland
  • Portugal
  • Prague
  • Río de la Plata
  • Saint Louis
  • S.L.A.G.
  • Seattle
  • Stockholm
  • Wisconsin

    • My Interests

    alchemy, automatic writing, automatism, black humor, collage, dialectic, dreams, exquisite corpse, found objects, freedom, frottage, Hegel, imagination, inspiration, language, the marvelous, mad love, night, objective chance, play, poetry, revolution, Sade, scandal

    I'd like to meet:

    Surrealists, revolutionaries, fellow travellers, and so on.

    Movies:

    Buster Keaton, Marx Brothers,

    Television:

    Tex Avery

    Books:

    Andre Breton – Nadja, Communicating Vessels, Mad Love, Surrealism and Painting, Ode to Charles Fourier, Manifestoes of Surrealism, Anthology of Black Humor; Louis Aragon – Paris Peasant, Treatise on Style, Irene’s Cunt; Luis Bunuel – My Last Sigh; Robert Desnos – Mourning for Mourning, Liberty or Love; Benjamin Peret – Death to the Pigs, A Marvelous World; Aime Cesaire - Return to My Native Land; Malcolm De Chazal - Plastic Sense; Philip Lamantia – Bed of Sphinxes; Leonora Carrington – The Hearing Trumpet, Down Below; Joyce Mansour – Screams; Jayne Cortez - Coagulations; Pierre Mabille – Mirror of the Marvelous; Rene Crevel – Difficult Death, Babylon; Franklin Rosemont – Wrong Numbers, The Morning of a Machine Gun; Penelope Rosemont – Surrealist Experiences; Julien Gracq – The Castle of Argol; Refusal of the Shadow: Surrealism and the Carribean (ed. Richardson and Fijalkowski); The Shadow and Its Shadow: Surrealist Writing on the Cinema (ed. Paul Hammond); Surrealism Against the Current (ed. Richardson and Fijalkowski); Investigating Sex: Surrealist Discussions 1928-1932 (ed. Jose Pierre); Surrealism and Its Popular Accomplices (ed. Franklin Rosemont); Surrealist Subversions (ed. Ron Sakolsky); Surrealist Women (ed. Penelope Rosemont); The Custom-House of Desire (ed. JH Matthews); Roger Cardinal and Robert Stuart Short – Surrealism: Permenant Revelation; Surrealism, Politics, and Culture (ed. Raymond Spiteri and Don LaCoss); Revolutionary Romanticism (ed. Max Blechman); JH Matthews - Toward the Poetics of Surrealism;

    Heroes:

    Comte de Lautréamont, Marquis De Sade, Guillaume Apollinaire, Alfred Jarry, Georgio De Chirico, Achim Von Arnim, Saint Pol-Roux, Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, Gerard De Nerval, William Blake, Petrus Borel, Hieronymus Bosch, Lewis Carroll, Ferdinand Cheval, Arthur Cravan, Thomas DeQuincey, Marcel Duchamp, Nicolas Flamel, Charles Fort, Charles Fourier, Sigmund Freud, G.W.F. Hegel, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Charles Maturin, Gustave Moreau, Novalis, Ann Radcliffe, Jacques Rigaut, Henri Rousseau, Raymond Roussel, Jonathan Swift, Jacques Vache, Villiers de l'Isle Adam, Edward Young

    My Blog

    Surrealism Without Walls

    RESPONSE OF THE SURREALIST GROUP OF RIO DE LA PLATA TO "A DIALOGUE ON THE IMAGE AND ITS TRANSMUTATIONS": SURREALISM WITHOUT WALLSWe must ask ourselves if the great efforts being made to defend "the ex...
    Posted by The Surrealist Revolution on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 05:13:00 PST

    To Come to End with God's Ghost

    After the Second World war, in the whole of the economically developed countries, the religion, and particularly Roman Catholicism, had had to fold back its secular claims to direct the life of men in...
    Posted by The Surrealist Revolution on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 05:13:00 PST

    Voices of the Hell Choir

    The entire text of Voices of the Hell Choir: Aspects of Contemporary Surrealist Activity, Its Modes of Rhetoric and Its Ludicism can be found here in three parts....
    Posted by The Surrealist Revolution on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 05:13:00 PST

    The Derrame Affair

    Over the past few months a controversy has unfolded over the statements and activities of the Derrame group in Chile. The Surrealist groups of Madrid and Río de la Plata have denounced the Derrame gro...
    Posted by The Surrealist Revolution on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 05:13:00 PST

    Poetic Identity

    The rise of imperialist ambition and military adventurism abroad leads, inevitably and inexorably, to a rise in the level of repression at home. The population of Britain is already reckoned to be amo...
    Posted by The Surrealist Revolution on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 05:13:00 PST