Surrealist Experiences by Penelope Rosemont

"An invitation to wander, this ebook deals a purer kind of hearth and air."---Rikki Ducornet

One of the only a few americans welcomed into the Surrealist move in Paris via André Breton himself, Penelope Rosemont has been a quickening strength in global surrealism because the Sixties. Her memoir goals & way of life chronicles her involvement with surrealism and the flow, days spent in Paris and SDS. As author, poet, painter, photographer and collagist, she has taken half in surrealist journals and exhibitions in the course of the international. Her leap forward assortment, Surrealist girls: a world Anthology (University of Texas press, 1998) has brought readers to rankings of ladies surrealists overlooked by way of critics and students and has been hailed as definitive.

Surrealist stories: 1001 dawns, 221 hours of darkness is a range of Penelope Rosemont's articles and essays. enthusiastic about fortuitous encounters and their manysided magic, those essays discover the significance of play, the affinities of alchemy and anarchy, poetry within the comics, the innovative importance of the fairy story, the sport of time-travelers' Potlatch, and the way forward for surrealism. She outstanding recounts her personal creative discoveries at the magnetic fields of surrealist automatism, together with the Alchemigram, the Landscapade and the Prehensilouette. Rosemont additionally takes us on a wide ranging expedition to Chicago's Maxwell road open-air fleamarket within the Sixties; retrieves interesting "lost voices"(George Francis educate, Mary MacLane and others) from oblivion; discusses the influence on surrealism of heiress Nancy Cunard; African-American Ted Joans; and acquaints us with a few of her notable painter neighbors (Toyen, Mimi mother or father, Lee Godie.) The booklet concludes with a robust rant opposed to paintings and its ideological pillars: racism, sexism. And miserablism. Rosemont passionately defends of affection, desert, and the poetic lifestyles. In those writings, serious idea embraces the "language of the birds" and poetic humor unearths open secrets and techniques of concept that's progressive notwithstanding at its wildest and brightest.

Introduction through Rikki Ducornet. be aware by means of Leonora Carrington.