Date: 18 Jun 99 16:48:54 +0000
From: "Carlos Martins" <anacmar-AT-mail.telepac.pt>
Subject: Re: SVATOKRADEZ


Hi Douglas

Sacrilege and miraculous have different senses here in Portugal probably due
the strength and influence from the religious and especially the church
(catholic).
However the surrealists (especially in the countries influenced by the church)
always considered the sacrilege as part of the surrealist and libertarian
subversion. "Jesus eclatant de rire" or another paintings from Clovis Trouile,
are in my opinion, the most concrete way of being sacrilege in a surrealist
sense (even if Trouille was mostly apart from surrealists, walking by a
different road, maybe as a "exorcism" against any kind of orthodoxies, even
a "surrealist".

>From my side i also have some misunderstandings about what is "miraculous"
cause in Portugal this word is very related with religious too.

Greetings
Carlos Martins

The Portuguese Surrealist Mouvement
>want no part of.

>Does anyone have any idea what the people in Prague  are driving at
>with this?

>Regards,

>Doug Campbell,
>Edinburgh

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