File spoon-archives/surrealist.archive/surrealist_1996/96-06-11.135, message 62


Subject: Surrealists of the world!
Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 15:53:01 +0100
From: "Theoretical Phys. MSc accnt. 13" <tpmsc13-AT-ic.ac.uk>


The recent discussions about portuguese and czech
surrealists suggest to me we should try to make a kind of
on-line compendium of surrealists of all over the world past
and present. A kind of updated version of Biro and
Passeron's Encyclopedie. The internet should be uniquely
suited for such an endeavor, since we can combine
people from all over the world speaking all sorts of
languages. It would also form a natural complement to
Carlos's study of surrealism in Portugal -- actually his study
would be a natural part of such a collective work.

I could relatively easy provide information about surrealism in
Denmark from the 30'es onward, and with a bit of research
also Sweden, Norway and Iceland. Denmark seems to be the
only one of these countries which had a genuine surrelist
group for a long period, Sweden had the "Imaginist" group in
the 40-50'es (Svanberg et al.) and has of course a very active
group at the present. Norway has never really had a group
and at most a few isolated individuals for a brief period,
whereas Iceland had a kind of group in the 70'es (from which
the singer Bjork came). I know a little bit about Holland too,
but perhaps Pierre knows more.

As concerns England and Ireland, some of the original people
are still alive, and Stuart could probably tell us much more.

France and Belgium is quite well covered in the literature as
it is, so we probably all know quite a lot about that.

Then there is Eastern Europe, Spain, Italy, Greece, Germany,
the Arab countries, the Carribean (about which a book has
just been published as you know by Michael Richardson),
Australia (there was a group there some years ago, but it
split up..... anybody know anything?), Asia and the Americas.
I think we can forget about Antarctica and Atlantis....

It is also a natural complement to an international web
exhibition......

What do you think?

		Frank


   

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