{"id":6720,"date":"2015-12-17T10:00:04","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T15:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/?p=6720"},"modified":"2016-01-05T14:22:27","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T19:22:27","slug":"the-surrealist-miracle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/2015\/12\/17\/the-surrealist-miracle\/","title":{"rendered":"“The Surrealist Miracle”"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items recently cataloged from the <\/em>Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cEverywhere the hands, heads, eyes, arms and legs of millions are manipulated through abominable choreographics of obligations, restrictions, responsibilities, laws; life itself becomes inside out, upside down, flattened to the pastel walls of bureaucratic insensitivity\u2014what is there left, in all this, of human freedom?\u201d<\/p>\n

So begins the preface of Surrealism & Revolution, <\/em>a brief anthology of meticulously typed-out texts from surrealist and Dada writers, artists, and revolutionaries such as Max Ernst and Leon Trotsky, interspersed with line drawings inspired by surrealist art (and one image replicating a painting of Hieronymus Bosch,\u00a0often credited as the original surrealist).<\/p>\n

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The goal of this collection was to introduce surrealism and its revolutionary capabilities (claimed by Franklin Rosemont in the preface) to the United States, where Rosemont states that surrealism has been \u201csystemically lied about by academicians and journalists,\u201d but the youth of America have discovered it nonetheless and will \u201csoon leave the schools, churches & government buildings of this country smouldering in ashes.\u201d\u00a0 Franklin and his wife, surrealist artist Penelope Rosemont, founded the Chicago Surrealist Group in 1965 after a meeting with the movement\u2019s founder, Andr\u00e9 Breton, in Paris.\u00a0 The Rosemonts have gone on to create art and publish extensively about surrealism and other radical\u00a0political movements, becoming directors of the subversive literature\u00a0Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company<\/a> in the 1980s. \u00a0Read an interview with Penelope Rosemont here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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This ZTANGI & Solidarity Bookshop copy from Chicago of Surrealism & Revolution<\/em> joins its counterpart from the Wooden Shoe in London\u00a0at Harvard.<\/p>\n

To learn more, both issues of\u00a0Surrealism & Revolution<\/em> can be found in Widener’s collection: the\u00a0Santo Domingo Collection copy,\u00a0[Chicago], Ztangi, [1966]<\/a>, along with the previously held copy,\u00a0London, Wooden Shoe; Coptic P., [1967].<\/a><\/p>\n

Thanks to Irina Rogova, Santo Domingo Library Assistant, for contributing this post.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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