Surrealism

The World Surrealist Exhibition was 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. ...more on Wikipedia about "1976 World Surrealist Exhibition"

À rebours (English translated title Against the Grain, or Against Nature) ( 1884) is a novel by the French novelist Joris-Karl Huysmans. It is a novel in which very little happens; its narrative concentrates almost entirely on its principal character, and is mostly a catalogue of the tastes and inner life of Des Esseintes, an eccentric, reclusive aesthete and antihero. ...more on Wikipedia about "À rebours"

Acéphale (headless) was a splinter group from the core of the Surrealism movement in Paris. ...more on Wikipedia about "Acéphale"

Alberto Giacometti ( October 10, 1901 – January 11, 1966) was a Swiss sculptor and painter. Giacometti was talented in four mediums — sculpture, painting, drawing and printmaking. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alberto Giacometti"

André Breton ( February 18, 1896 – September 28, 1966) was a French writer, poet, and surrealist theorist. His writings include the Surrealist Manifesto of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as pure psychic automatism. ...more on Wikipedia about "André Breton"

André-Aimé-René Masson ( January 4, 1896 – October 28, 1987) was a French artist. ...more on Wikipedia about "André Masson"

Atsuko Tsurumi (鶴見厚子 Tsurumi Atsuko) is a surrealist- impressionist artist born in 1951 in Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from Tama Art University in 1975. Her favorite artist (according to her website) is Naohisa Inoue. ...more on Wikipedia about "Atsuko Tsurumi"

Benjamin Fondane ( November 14 1898, Iaşi- October 2 or 3 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau) was a poet, playwright, literary critic (noted for his works on Lev Shestov's vision and on that of Søren Kierkegaard), film director, and translator. A Romanian- Jew born as Benjamin Wechsler or Wexler, he published poetry since 1912 under the pen name of B. Fundoianu or Barbu Fundoianu (he is still known by them in Romania) in such magazines as Rampa and Hatikvah. In 1918, he authored the drama Tăgăduinţa lui Petru. ...more on Wikipedia about "Benjamin Fondane"

Benjamin Péret ( 1899- 1959) was a French poet and Surrealist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Benjamin Péret"

Biomorphism was an art movement of the 20th century. The term was first used by Alfred H. Barr, Jr. in 1936. Biomorphist artists focused on the power of natural life and used organic shapes, with hints of the shapeless and vaguely spherical forms of biology. It has connections with Surrealism. ...more on Wikipedia about "Biomorphism"

Brave Destiny was a 2003 exhibition announced as "the world's largest show of living artists working today in Surrealism, Surreal/ Conceptual, Visionary, Fantastic, Symbolism, Magic Realism, the Vienna School, Neuve Invention, Outsider, Naïve, the Macabre, Grotesque and Singulier Art" organised by Terrance Lindall at the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center in Brooklyn, New York. ** ...more on Wikipedia about "Brave Destiny"

(British Surrealist Group) * Eileen Agar ( 1899- 1991) ...more on Wikipedia about "British Surrealist Group"

Hugo Ball, with his companion Emmy Hennings, founded Cabaret Voltaire on February 5, 1916 in Zürich as a cabaret for artistic and political purposes. Other founder members were Marcel Janco, Richard Huelsenbeck, Tristan Tzara and Jean Arp ...more on Wikipedia about "Cabaret Voltaire (Zürich)"

The Chicago Surrealist Group was founded in July, 1966 by Franklin and Penelope Rosemont, after their 1965 trip to Paris where they attended meetings of the Paris Surrealist Group and met André Breton. Its initial members came from radical backgrounds such as the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and indeed the Chicago Surrealist Group edited an issue of Radical America, the SDS journal. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chicago Surrealist Group"

Clarence John Laughlin ( 1905 - 2 January, 1985) was a United States photographer, best known for his surrealist photographs of the U.S. South. ...more on Wikipedia about "Clarence John Laughlin"

Claude Cahun ( 25 October, 1894 – 8 December, 1954) was a French photographer and writer. Her work was both political and personal, and often played with the concepts of gender and sexuality. ...more on Wikipedia about "Claude Cahun"

Camille Clovis Trouille, was born on 24 October 1889, in France. He worked as Sunday painter and a restorer and decorator of department store mannequins, and trained an the École des Beaux-Arts from 1905 to 1910. He died in 1975. ...more on Wikipedia about "Clovis Trouille"

Collage (From the French, coller, to stick) is the assemblage of different forms creating a new whole. ...more on Wikipedia about "Collage"

The College of Sociology was a loosely-knit group of French intellectuals, named after the informal discussion series that they organized. The College was founded in 1937 in Paris and continued operating until 1939, when it was disrupted by the war. ...more on Wikipedia about "College of Sociology"

Conroy Maddox, ( December 27 1912 – January 14 2005), was a British surrealist painter, collagist, writer and lecturer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Conroy Maddox"

Dale Michael Houstman is a surrealist poet from Minneapolis, Minnesota. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dale M Houstman"

Dan Piraro is a surrealist painter, illustrator, and cartoonist best-known for his award-winning syndicated panel cartoon Bizarro. Formerly from Dallas,he went to high school at Booker T. Washington in Tulsa, OK, he currently resides in Manhattan, New York City with his wife, Ashley. Piraro is a now a vegan. Many of his cartoons spread the animal rights message. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dan Piraro"

David Gascoyne ( October 10, 1916 - November 25, 2001) was a British poet associated with the Surrealist movement. ...more on Wikipedia about "David Gascoyne"

Dialectique de la dialectique is a 1945 text publication by Romanian surrealists Gherasim Luca and Dolfi Trost. It's subtitle was Message to the International Surrealist Movement. Like the artists previous work it was largely based on surrealist theory and the sustainance of the surrealist movement. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dialectique de la dialectique"

Dolfi (or Dolphi) Trost was a Romanian surrealist poet and theorist, and the instigator of entopic graphomania. With Gherasim Luca he was the author of Dialectique de la dialectique. He also authored a work entitled Le même du même. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dolfi Trost" shortopedia - now!

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