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...Gerard Aching In response to demands from French Communist Party officials for surrealists to define the nature of their relationship to communism, André Breton published Legitimate Defense (1926), a pamphlet in which he described surrealism’s ideological and political stance and identified some...

... Dhabi; with Diawara she has co-authored texts on Goya, Glissant, and contemporary art (Cahiers d Art, Paris); Glissant, André Breton and the new sacred (Arts & Cultures, Barbier Mueller, Geneva), and an article on Paulo Nazareth (The Power Plant, Toronto). Notes This text was originally commissioned...

...Mona Khazindar; Unity Woodman Georges Henein (1914–73) was a Francophone Egyptian writer who introduced surrealism to the artistic and intellectual milieu of Cairo as early as 1937. The author traces Henein’s engagement with the tenets of surrealism articulated by André Breton in France and his...

... of the nature of reality. One aspect of this process was the construction of an idea of the Orient as an oppositional myth to that constructed by Western civilization, based on material progress. André Breton had already marked this in his Introduction to the Discourse on the Paucity of Reality (1924...

... of Tropiques in 1945 as a result of Vichy censorship, and finally the meeting between the Tropiques group and André Breton, leading to Aimé Césaire s important manifesto on Caribbean surrealism.1 Originally, Tropiques was not intended to be a surrealist magazine at all. As Aimé Césaire said, his idea...

... sources give different dates; Bachir El Sibaei states 1928. André Breton publishes The First Manifesto of Surrealism. André Breton publishes Soluble Fish. 1925 André Breton publishes A Letter to Seers. Abdel Hadi El-Gazzar is born in Alexandria. 1928 Mahmud Mukhtar s sculpture Nahdat Misr (The Renaissance...

... Egyptian elites. As revealed in his biography and writings, Henein was the driving force behind the Egyptian surrealists activities and maintained close contact with other groups in France, Belgium, and the United States. Most crucial was Henein s lifelong friendship with André Breton, whom he had known...

... maintained a tangential relationship to Parisian surrealism, and like much of modern art in Egypt, it adapted the original French tenets to regional needs. The French intellectual André Breton initiated surrealism in 1924 as a movement of art and ideas with a manifesto and sustained the movement through WWII...

... of French avant-garde culture as a master• tower, cathedral—do not resolve themselves piece. The surrealist poet and ideologue Andre under a unifying rubric and even after you have Breton writes a preface entitled "A Great Black grasped the main point, you must puzzle through...

... by Leon Trotsky and André Breton, with the help of Diego Rivera. In the manner of the manifesto, the Egyptian group defended artistic liberty at a time when fascism and Nazism were rife in Europe and promoted an anti-authoritarian and anti-imperial agenda that was informed by Marxist and Freudian theories...

... 1930s, the teenaged Cairene belonged to a Francophone group called Les Essayistes (The Essayists) and contributed to its publication Un Effort on political, literary, and art-related topics. Henein corresponded with André Breton in the mid-1930s while grapp[ling] with questions of how to fuse...

... particularly his friendships with Andre Breton and of the world, its passions and its tremors. From Paul Eluard, and his intimate relations with this beginning, then, the relationship to Africa Leopold Sedar Senghor and the Cuban painter would not be sung as something immediately...

... not as embodiments of a single truth but rather as en­ ergized political and aesthetic forms of a collective project for revamping Egyptian and Arab identity and reality. In many ways Chahine stands, like André Breton did, to maintain that the activity of interpreting the world must continue to be linked...

... letter to André Breton. On February 4, 1937, Henein gave his first seminal lecture on The Harvest of the Surrealist Movement, in which he defined surrealism as a life-changing adventure. The lecture was published in October of the same year in Revue des conferences françaises en orient, which became...

... in the ethnographic studies of the Other. genders a new kind of exchange and set of relations, A decisive break from Breton s surrealist mandates in which the host (in this case the French state) is and manifestos, Documents was filled with odd and placed in a position to expel the parasite (Enwezor, incongruous...

... Movement The book Surrealism in Egypt elicited many reactions that I had not at all anticipated. I began writing it in Paris as a young man in my twenties, through a letter addressed by Henein, the founder of surrealism in Egypt, to André Breton, the founder of French surrealism worldwide. This letter...

... State Jordi Pujol, president of the Generalitat of Catalunya, has throwing out the Jews and Muslims from the peninsula in 1492, argued that making knowledge of "Els Segadors" compulsory for the French State banning Breton and Alsatian and Corsican from children...

... André Breton and Cocteau and considered their thoughts to be dangerous, so he preferred not to explore them. Accordingly, he abided by his proper concepts of life.16 This sheds light on Van-Leo s limited contact with the circle of the Art and Liberty group, although two documents in his archive confirm...

... on the hybrid ways in which Benga’s body was known gay men had begun to create” in conscious oppo- to move, signifying the “primitive” (unclothed) and sition to surrealism’s, or rather to André Breton’s, “civilized” (clothed). strident homophobia and heterosexism. This move­ Van...

..., the infamous 1917 Society of the Independents- the distinction that in this case the character is fooling himself sponsored show "granting it the status of artwork by the mere act with his own trompe-l'oeil. Leak also shares a seditious spirit of choice" according to Breton's...