Sussex Surrealism (slides)
- 1. Sussex (and) Surrealism Dr Sam Cooper University of Sussex [email protected] Picasso at Muddles Green, near Chiddingly, 1950
- 2. Surrealism? Surréalisme? Super-realism? The ‘vexed question of the proper Englishing’ of the movement
- 3. Selected Surrealist Manifestos and Groups 1924 France Yugoslavia 1926 Belgium Hungary 1928 Romania 1929 Czechoslovakia 1934 Egypt 1936 United Kingdom 1938 Chile 1940 Mexico
- 4. ‘Surrealist Manifesto’, Andre Breton (1924) ‘We are still living under the reign of logic.’ ‘Under the pretence of civilisation and progress, we have managed to banish from the mind everything that may rightly or wrongly be termed superstition or fancy; forbidden is any kind of search for truth which is not in accordance with accepted practices.’ ‘I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality, if one may so speak.’
- 5. ‘And the Seventh Dream is the Dream of Isis’, David Gascoyne (1933) white curtains of infinite fatigue dominating the starborn heritage of the colonies of St Francis white curtains of tortured destinies inheriting the calamities of the plagues of the desert encourage the waistlines of women to expand and the eyes of men to enlarge like pocket-cameras teach children to sin at the age of five to cut out the eyes of their sisters with nail-scissors to run into the streets and offer themselves to unfrocked priests teach insects to invade the deathbeds of rich spinsters and to engrave the foreheads of their footmen with purple signs for the year is open the year is complete the year is full of unforeseen happenings and the time of earthquakes is at hand
- 6. ‘Automatic Drawing’, Andre Masson (1924) Psychic Automatism ‘Exquisite Corpse’ drawing by Man Ray, Yves Tanguy, Joan Miro and Max Morise (1927)
- 7. The Surrealist Revolution (1924-1929) The Politics of Surrealism Surrealism in the Service of the Revolution (1930-1933)
- 8. Socialist Realism (1939) The Politics of Surrealism ‘L’Ange du foyeur’, Max Ernst (1937)
- 9. ‘The Surrealist Muse… does not often descend upon English soil; for she is terrified of the poet laureate, the censor, the Conservative Association, buy British goods, empire day, do your Christmas shopping early, the Queen’s doll’s house, sales on now, why not wear the Boston garter?’ Edouard Roditi, ‘A New Reality’ (1929)
- 10. David Gascoyne’s A Short Survey of Surrealism (1935) with cover art by Max Ernst David Gascoyne Gascoyne in 1951
- 11. Herbert Read’s Surrealism (1936) with cover art by Roland Penrose Herbert Read Read in 1941
- 12. Poster by Max Ernst International Surrealist Exhibition 1936 Exhibition organising committee, including Herbert Read fourth from right, back row.
- 13. International Surrealist Exhibition 1936 Sheila Legge as the Surrealist Phantom
- 14. Mass-Observation Humphrey Jennings Charles Madge and Tom Harrisson
- 15. Mass-Observation ‘Washing Day’ and ‘Graffiti’, both Bolton, by Humphrey Spender
- 16. Mass-Observation ‘Fence’ and ‘Working Man’s Hair Specialist’, both Bolton, by Humphrey Spender
- 18. Humphrey Jennings ‘Surrealist’ scenes of bomb damage in London Can Take It! (1940)
- 19. Humphrey Jennings Graffham in Penny Journey (1938)
- 20. Lee Miller Miller’s first Vogue cover, 15th March 1927 ‘Solarized’ portrait of Miller by Man Ray, c.1929
- 21. Lee Miller ‘Revenge on Culture’ (1940) ‘Women in Fire Masks’ (1941) ‘A Bombed Chapel’ (1940)
- 22. Lee Miller Miller in Hitler’s bathtub , 1945
- 23. Roland Penrose
- 24. Roland Penrose ‘Winged Domino’ (1938) ‘The Real Woman’ (1938)
- 25. Roland Penrose ‘The Conquest of the Air’ (1938) ‘The Last Voyage of Captain Cook’ (1936)
- 26. Surrealism and Camouflage Penrose’s ‘startle’ slide. Lee Miller camouflaged, c.1940 First World War ‘dazzle ship’ Dummy tank, 1942
- 28. Farley Farm House Roland and Lee in Vogue, 1965
- 29. Farley Farm House Roland Penrose’s fireplace mural (1950) The Long Man
- 30. Edward James ‘Not to be Reproduced’ and ‘The Pleasure Principle’, both portraits of James by Rene Magritte (1937)
- 31. Seaside Surrealism ‘Swanage’, Paul Nash (c.1936) Sweet shop window, Brighton Roland Penrose, 1937 Lee Miller and Fortune-Telling Slot Machine, Brighton Roland Penrose, 1937
- 32. ‘Working Guests’ Saul Steinberg draws the Long Man (1953) Saul Steinberg wrestles with a hose (1953) Dorothea Tanning and Max Ernst in the garden (1950)