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Surrealist Experiences
Essay. Focused on fortuitous encounters and their manysided magic, Rosemont in these essays explores the importance of play, the affinities of alchemy and anarchy, poetry in the comics, the revolutionary significance of a fairy tale, the game of Time-Travelers' Potlatch, and the future of surrealism. SURREALIST 1001 DAWNS, 221MIDNIGHTS is Penelope Rosemont's first book of articles and essays. It includes nearly two dozen texts originally published in surrealist journals from 1970 through the '90s, plus eleven that appear here for the first time. One of the few Americans welcomed into the Surrealist Movement in Paris by Andre Breton, the author has been a force in surrealism since the 1960s as a painter, photographer, and collagist.
179 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1999
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July 4, 2022
A collection of various works by Penelope Rosemont, primarily from the 1970s and 80s. Suffers the same highs and lows as a similar collection by her husband that I read not too long ago. Generally speaking, her prose tends to have more flights of surrealistic fantasy. This can be wonderful on occasion, but seem out of place in a few of the non-fiction pieces about other artists or people. There is a lot of overlap here with the autobiography by her I read about a month ago and so some of it felt unnecessary. I wish the works about certain artists covered more about them and less about artworks not reproduced in any way in the book, but this is a common problem I have with similar collection.
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