Chicago Surrealist Group
The Chicago Surrealist Group was founded in Chicago, Illinois, in July 1966 by Franklin Rosemont, Penelope Rosemont, Bernard Marszalek, Tor Faegre and Robert Green after a trip to Paris in 1965, during which they were in contact with André Breton.[1] Its initial members came from far-left or anarchist backgrounds and had already participated in groups IWW (calling themselves the Rebel Worker Group and putting out a magazine called the Rebel Worker) and SDS; indeed, the Chicago group edited an issue of Radical America, the SDS journal, and the SDS printshop printed some of the group's first publications.[2]
Collaborations and projects
The group played a major role in organizing the World Surrealist Exhibition held at Gallery Black Swan in Chicago in 1976. As the name suggests, broader in scope than previous "international" exhibitions, it featured hundreds of works almost exclusively from contemporary participants in surrealism from thirty-one countries.[3]
Marvelous Freedom/Vigilance of Desire was the name for the catalogue of the 1976 World Surrealist Exhibition. It contains a number of texts and reproductions, as well as a blueprint of the layout of the gallery, with the location of the different "domains" into which the exhibition was organised.[4]
Participants in the group's activities have included Clarence John Laughlin, Gerome Kamrowski, Philip Lamantia, Tristan Meinecke and Franklin Rosemont. As participants past and present have been based in cities other than Chicago, the group has never been strictly defined by geography, despite its name. The group has worked with others, such as The Surrealist Group in Stockholm, with which it met in Chicago and Stockholm in 1986, publishing the International Surrealist Bulletin No. 1.[5]
See also
References
- ^ Spector, Jack J. (1997). Surrealist Art and Writing, 1919-1939: The Gold of Time. Cambridge University Press. p. 294. ISBN 0-521-55311-3.
- ^ Rosemont, Penelope (2000). Surrealist Experiences:1001 Dawns, 221 Midnights. Black Swan Press. p. 5. ISBN 0-941194-43-4.
- ^ "Women and the Surrealist Revolution: an interview with Penelope Rosemont" by Danny Postel, in 'Exquisite Corpse: A Journal of Letters and Life' Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Black Swan Press: Available Titles". Archived from the original on 2007-06-28. Retrieved 2014-08-04.
- ^ "Surrealism". Archived from the original on 2007-05-12. Retrieved 2007-06-07.
Bibliography
- Rosemont, Franklin and Charles Radcliffe. Dancin' in the Streets: Anarchists, IWWs, Surrealists, Situationists and Provos in the 1960s as Recorded in the Pages of Rebel Worker and Heatwave, Charles H Kerr. 2005. ISBN 0-88286-301-0
- Abigail Susik, Surrealist Sabotage and the War on Work, Manchester University Press, 2021, pp. 182-237
External links
- Chicago Surrealist Group
- Review of 2002 Chicago Surrealist Group exhibition at Heartland Cafe "Surrealism Here and Now" at ArtScope.net
- "Links to International surrealism"
- "Another Stupid War" (statement)[permanent dead link]
- Letter in New York Review of Books
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