Surrealismus + Antifaschismus

The back cover of a book on a light green background, featuring the German title, Aber hier leben? Nein danke. Below the text is a black-and-white surrealist illustration of a large hand drawing over a landscape with abstract figures and an arm casting a shadow in the shape of a swan.

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A book open to a two-page spread. The left page, numbered 012, is blank. The right page, 013, shows the beginning of an introduction in German. The heading reads ABER HIER LEBEN? NEIN DANKE. SURREALISMUS + ANTIFASCHISMUS, followed by several paragraphs of black text on a white background.

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A two-page spread from an art magazine about Surrealism and politics. The left page features a large, colorful Surrealist painting of a woman beside an industrial seascape. The right page includes a black-and-white photograph of a group of men and two small images of the journal cover for La Révolution Surréaliste.

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A two-page spread from a German art catalog, pages 666 and 667, titled Ausgestellte Werke. The pages display a grid of 16 surrealist and modern artworks, including paintings, drawings, photographs, and book covers, each accompanied by a descriptive caption in German.

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Surrealismus + Antifaschismus

Anthologie

€ 54.00

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Edited by: Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau München, Karin Althaus, Adrian Djukić, Ara H. Merjian, Matthias Mühling, Stephanie Weber

Graphic Design: magma design studio

Texts by: Theodor W. Adorno, Georges Bataille, Walter Benjamin, Andre Breton, Claude Cahun, Leonora Carrington, Aimé Césaire, Suzanne Césaire, Robert Desnos, China Miéville, Lee Miller, Karel Teige, Leo Trotzki, Paul Westheim et al.

German

March 2025, 696 Pages, 600 Photos

Lay-Flat Binding with Flaps

220mm x 280mm

ISBN: 978-3-7757-5878-9

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10629 Berlin
Germany
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The topicality of Surrealism today

Surrealism was not only an international artistic movement, but also a political one. Its members denounced European colonial policy, opposed fascist regimes, fought for the Spanish Republic, were persecuted, went into exile, and died in war. They wrote poetry, deconstructed the language of a supposedly rational world, worked on paintings, collective drawings, took photographs, and made collages. Surrealism was associated with later emancipatory concerns not as a style, but as a method, and was taken up by the student protests of the 1960s and the Black Liberation Movement. This catalogue is published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Lenbachhaus Munich. In the form of an anthology, it presents pivotal texts and manifestoes of political Surrealism from its beginnings to current references in art and politics. It thus offers a valuable contribution to revising the still narrowly defined Surrealist canon.

EXHIBITION

Lenbachhaus Munich

October 15, 2024-March 30, 2025