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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