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Surrealism and Anti-fascism
Anthology
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Edited by: Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau München, Karin Althaus, Adrian Djukić, Ara H. Merjian, Matthias Mühling, Stephanie Weber
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.
Graphic Design: Magma design studio
German
February 2025,
608
Pages
Paperback with Flaps
220mm x
280mm
ISBN:
978-3-7757-5878-9
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 2, 2025
Lenbachhaus Munich
October 15, 2024–March 2, 2025
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