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Surrealism and Its Popular Accomplices
Sought after collection of historical texts and articles on Surrealism. Long out of print cult collection. View attached image (The Shadow, Memphis Minnie, Bugs Bunny images) References to Isadora Duncan, Shaker Paintings. Large format 27.5 x 21.2 cms.
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120 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 1980
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Franklin Rosemont
44 books20 followers Franklin Rosemont was co-founder of the Chicago Surrealist Group. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. His father, Henry, was a labor activist. His mother, Sally, was a jazz musician.
He edited & wrote an introduction for What is Surrealism?: Selected Writings of Andre Breton, & edited Rebel Worker, Arsenal/Surrealist Subversion, The Rise & Fall of the DIL Pickle: Jazz-Age Chicago's Wildest & Most Outrageously Creative Hobohemian Nightspot & Juice is Stranger than Friction: Selected Writings of T-Bone Slim. With his wife, Penelope Rosemont, & Paul Garon he edited The Forecast is Hot!. His work has been deeply concerned with both the history of surrealism (writing a forward for Max Ernst & Alchemy: A Magician in Search of Myth) & of the radical labor movement in America, for instance, writing a biogaphy of Joe Hill.
He is the author of the poetry collections The Morning of a Machine Gun: Twenty Poems & Documents. Profusely Illustrated By the Author, The Apple of the Automatic Zebra's Eye, & Penelope: A Poem, as well as An Open Entrance to the Shut Palace of Wrong Numbers, a book that explores the phenomenon of "wrong numbers" from a surrealist perspective, published by Black Swan Press in Chicago in 2003.
Rosemont and his wife urrently live in the East Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago, managing the Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company, the world's oldest, continuously existing socialist publishing house.
He edited & wrote an introduction for What is Surrealism?: Selected Writings of Andre Breton, & edited Rebel Worker, Arsenal/Surrealist Subversion, The Rise & Fall of the DIL Pickle: Jazz-Age Chicago's Wildest & Most Outrageously Creative Hobohemian Nightspot & Juice is Stranger than Friction: Selected Writings of T-Bone Slim. With his wife, Penelope Rosemont, & Paul Garon he edited The Forecast is Hot!. His work has been deeply concerned with both the history of surrealism (writing a forward for Max Ernst & Alchemy: A Magician in Search of Myth) & of the radical labor movement in America, for instance, writing a biogaphy of Joe Hill.
He is the author of the poetry collections The Morning of a Machine Gun: Twenty Poems & Documents. Profusely Illustrated By the Author, The Apple of the Automatic Zebra's Eye, & Penelope: A Poem, as well as An Open Entrance to the Shut Palace of Wrong Numbers, a book that explores the phenomenon of "wrong numbers" from a surrealist perspective, published by Black Swan Press in Chicago in 2003.
Rosemont and his wife urrently live in the East Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago, managing the Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company, the world's oldest, continuously existing socialist publishing house.
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July 25, 2008
Rosemont ferrets out Surrealism and proto-Surrealism in popular culture, leaving one with the sense that Dada and Surrealism were simply symptoms of a much deeper running river of mad absurdity that flows on to this day. Find a berth for the Fleischer Brothers, Bugs Bunny the Trickster, the Marx Brothers, Little Nemo and so much more. Influenced Robert Anton Wilson and fellow Discordians. Essential and essentially entertaining.
May 15, 2008
I read this twenty something years ago and loved it. The book covers Buster Keaton, Warner Bros cartoons, and lots of comic artists, among others. Recently loaned it to a deranged filmmaker pal who appreciated it greatly.
Author comes out of '60s New Left, wrote a bio of Joe Hill I haven't read.
Author comes out of '60s New Left, wrote a bio of Joe Hill I haven't read.
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