Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 01:39:09 +0200 (MET DST)
From: p_petiot-AT-euronet.nl (PETIOT_Pierre)
Subject: Re: exhibition, further thoughts 



>>At the same time, I don't like it. If we need a disclaimer to prove we're
>>surreal, then surrealism is dead... 
>>
>Why? Saying how surrealism differs from various other
>movements doesn't kill surrealism, neither does it restrict in
>any way really. Just like saying, for example how communist
>anarchism differs from, say, trotskyism and syndicalism,
>doesn't imply the death of communist anarchism....
>
>William wrote:
>>
>>Remember, EACH COUNTRY had their own ways of expressing what it was 
>>they thought Breton was saying, and the various things that emerged 
>>were all quite different, and still Breton included these under his 
>>umbrella.
>>
>This is precisely what I mean! Surrealism is a vast subject, a
>very open-ended movement, in which various people have at
>various times emphazised various aspects. Marking the
>boundaries (and not the limits, to quote Breton...) of the
>movement doesn't mean we all have to do exactly the same
>thing, that we all have to have paint/write in identical manner,
>nor that we can't disagree about all sorts of things. It just
>mean that we agree on the farmes of our disagreements so to
>speak..
>I think this is what Pierre meant when he answered William's
>comment with 
>>
>>But don't you understand that the magic is precisely that "the various 
>>things that emerged 
>>were all quite different, and still Breton included these under his umbrella".

That's indeed what I meant.
Pierre PETIOT
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http://www.euronet.nl/users/p_petiot/poiein/poiein.html
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