Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:25:20 GMT
From: anacmar-AT-mail.telepac.pt (Carlos Martins)
Subject: Re: Walpole kisses Marx


Hi Carl-Michael

well, it`s a good event to celebrate this referred by you in last
mail. I know Martin Stejskal`work because he participate at the Lisbon
Surrealist show on 1984 and i have the catalogue here.
So, i will drink with you. Pity it sounds to be so late, no?



Hi all
(but especially Barrett, William, Michael and others from USA)

I just come from the "Librairie Francaise" here in Lisbon where i saw
the last "Dictionary of Surrealism" organized by Jean Paul Clebert,
editions Seuil, France, 1996. It seemed to me very interesting but with
very lack of information about recent years (namely since the
sixties) and about surrealist activity of different groups. For
example referring the activity in USA, he only mentions until the
"Dada, Surrealism and their heritage" exhibition on 1968. Being a recent
work (as i said issued on 1996) i think would be very interesting if
you could advise the author to be more informed about surrealist activity
in your country, namely the more recent years, no?
On the contrary we risk those books (even if interesting because
can bring some useful information about Surrealism) can also
contribute for the confusion we denounced here for many times and especially
in more recent postings, i.e. that is purely an aesthetic movement,
dated and already gone.

carlos


Hi all
Mario phoned me yesterday and told me Eurico and himself they are preparing
another book about surrealist activity in Portugal and they think to
include the more recent members (namely from the seventies). So, soonest
it will be published i will inform you.

carlos