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Surrealism
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First Surrealist Manifesto
Guillaume Apollinaire dies
Nazi occupation of Paris
First Paper's of Surrealism Exhibition opens in NY on 14th October 1942
Rise of Existentialism in France after the end of WW2
Arrival of Pop Art
Guillaume Apollinaire, 'The New Spirit and the Poets' [Book] L'espirit Nouveau
Breton publicly adopts the word 'Surrealism' in October 1924
Dada begins in Zurich, Switzerland
Andre Breton, 'The Automatic Message' [Minotaur]
First exhibition of surrealist photography
Hal Foster response to L'Amour fou: Photography and Surrealism Exhibition.
Dora Maar returns to Paris
Claude Cahun meets Breton
Man Ray comes to Paris
Brussels gets occupied by German forces
Magritte returns to his 'proper' Magrittian style
Magritte's artistic tantrum of 1948
Andre Breton, 'As in a Wood' (1951) [Essay]
Un Chien Andalou [Film]
L'age d'or [Film]
Breton visits a flea market with Giacometti.
Sigmund Freud, 'On Fetishism' (1927) [Paper]
Surrealism reaches the peak of its object craze
Attack on Breton in 'Un Cadavre' [Pamphlet]
Tristan Tzara leaves the surrealist group
Andre Breton discovers Giacometti
Giacometti joins the surrealist group
Georges Bataille, 'Formless' (1929) [Essay/ Definition]
Martin Jay, 'Abjection Overruled' (1998) [Essay]
Abject Art: Repulsion and Desire in American Art Exhibition at the Whitney Museum, NY (1993)
Julia Kristeva, 'Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection' (1980) [Book]
George Bataille died
Revival of Bataille in 'Tel Quel' [Journal] distinguishes itself from Bretonian surrealism.
Krauss begins a Bataillian revival
Briony Fer starts writing from a Bataillian framework in 'On Abstract Art' [Book]
Lisa Florman writes about Picasso in a Bataillian framework in 'Myth and Metamorphosis: Picasso's Classical Prints of the 1930s' [Book]
Revival of Antonin Artaud in the 1960s
Breton meets Aragon for the first time
Aragon goes to Moscow for the first time
Aragon publishes work that Breton criticised as un-surrealist
Aragon publishes another work that's critical of Bretonian ideas
Aragon's work enters into a state of crisis
Aragon and Barbusse chosen to represent France at the International Conference at the Kharkov Conference 1931
Aragon criticised the PCF at the Kharkov conference
The PCF began to criticise Aragon
Surrealist group in 'collective disarray'
Aragon urges the surrealists and PCF unite
Aragon arrested by French police because of 'Front Rouge' poem
Aragon reject's Bretonian surrealism and enters into full service with the PCF
PCF + Surrealist group collaborate on 'The Truth About the Colonies' Exhibition, Paris (1931)
PCF begin to criticise the surrealists
Surrealist Map of the World in Varietes Journal (1929)
Sculptures from Pacific Islands on show at Surrealist Exhibition at Galerie Surrealiste
Surrealist exiles began arriving in America from 1941
Surrealists wanted to collaborate on a book about Eskimo art
Breton's first step to communist conversion
19 surrealists signed Barbusse's protest to the Rif war in Morocco
Political conversion en masse of surrealists to communism
Formation of the 'Clarte' surrealist alliance (communist)
Clarte group engage in Moroccan revolution
Breton, Aragon, Eluard, Peret and Pierre Unik apply for PCF membership
Surrealists passionately support revolutionary uprising in Morocco
Hitler came to power
Trotsky and Breton publish 'Manifesto For an Independent Revolutionary Art'
Surrealist declaration in support of the Algerian War
Andre Breton, 'L'art Magique' (1957)
Reference to magic in the first surrealist manifesto
Surrealism's growing interest in magic seen in Benjamin Peret, 'La Parole est a Peret' (1943)
Surrealist interest in magic increased as Kurt Seligmann joined the surrealist group
Surrealist journal 'Medium' is first published
Breton writes about magic in an essay in 'Metaphysique' Journal
Discourse on Duchamp and Magic written by Jack Burnham in 'Great Western Saltworks'
Surrealism is not dead, expressed by Andre Breton in 'Situation of Surrealism Between the Two Wars' (1942)
Clement Greenberg, 'Surrealist Painting' (1944)
1950s see the peak in the revival of Impressionism
Ressurgance of interest in Impressionism after the war
Paris surrealist group breaks up/ disperses
Peggy Gugenheim opens Art of This Century Gallery and showed all the major surrealist artists
Greenberg is critical of surrealism in his essay 'Towards A Newer Laocoon' (1940)
Greenberg is critical of First Papers of Surrealism Exhibition
Breton rejects positivism
Breton rejects positivism again
Greenberg's turn to positivism
Another work that marked surrealism's shift to esotericism is Andre Breton's 'Arcane 17' (1945)
Culmination of surrealism's shift to magic also in same year that Greenberg declares the establishment of an American school of abstract art.
In the 4th issue of 'La Révolution surréaliste' Breton declares he is taking over the publication
Andre Breton calls Picasso 'One of ours' in 4th issue of La Révolution surréaliste
'Three Dancers' (1925) seen as Picasso's turn to surrealism
Breton's praise of Picasso in 'Break of Day' (1934)
Picasso stays in Paris for the German occupation
1944 seen as year Picasso turns away from surrealism
Max Ernst moves to South of France with Leonora Carrington
Max Ernst imprisoned in Camp des Milles, near Aix-en-Provence, with Hans Bellmer
Max Ernst arrested again shortly after German occupation of France
Ernst and Guggenheim get married
Ernst and Dorothea Tanning get married and move to Arizona
Ernst and Tanning move back to South of France
Duchamp escapes to New York
Breton moves back to France
Andre Masson moves back to Paris
Man Ray moves back to Paris
Andre Breton goes to Mexico
Matta moves to New York
Rene Magritte Exhibition at MoMA
Salvador Dali Exhibition at The Gallery of Modern Art, NY
Duchamp starts to make a comeback as one of the most important artists of the 20th c.
Duchamp's return to prominence in Robert Motherwell, 'Dada, Painters and Poets' (1951)
First anthology of Duchamp's writing was published in 'Marchand de Sel ecrits de Marcel Duchamp' (1958)
Emergence of neo-Dada in 1950s
Surrealist Intrusion in the Enchanters Domain Exhibition at the D'Arcy Galleries NY (1960)
First mega-critique of Greenberg in Steinberg's 'Other Criteria' (1968)
Sontag tried to chart the sensibilities of the decade
Rare voice of support for surrealism in 1960s in Susan Sontag, 'One Culture and the New Sensibility' (1965)
Sontag tries to forge this idea of a new sensibility again in 'The Aesthetics of Silence' (1967)
Adoption of Cagian theory in Leonard B. Meyer, 'The End of the Renaissance' (1963)
Rejection of a surrealist sensibility in 'Sesnsibility of the Sixties' by Barbara Rose and Irving Sandler
Michael Fried rejects a surrealist sensibility in his famous 'Art and Objecthood' (1967)
First time surrealism is seen to be echoed in Pop Art expressed by Mark Koslof in Art International
L'Ecart absolu Surrealist Exhibition in Paris (1965)
Creation of Chicago surrealist group (July 1966)
Art Forum 'Surrealism' special edition. Was actually very critical of surrealism.
ArtForum May 1968 criticised Surrealist expo at MoMA
ArtForum becomes more politicised and rejects surrealism
Andre Breton dies
Marcel Duchamp dies
Presence of magic evident in International Exhibition of Surrealism in Paris
Períodos
Second Surrealist Manifesto
Andre Brouillet, 'A Clinical Demonstration at the Salpêtrière' (1887) [Painting]
Term 'Psychoanalysis' used for the first time
Sigmund Freud, 'The Interpretation of Dreams' [Book]
Sigmund Freud, 'The Psychopathology of Everyday Life' [Book]
Andre Breton and Philippe Soupault, 'The Magnetic Fields' [Book]
L'Esprit Nouveau Journal (Purism)
Andre Masson, 'Automatic Drawing' [drawing]
Many surrealists join the Communist Party
The surrealist object
Andre Breton, 'Mad Love' (1937) [Book]
International Exhibition of Surrealism (Paris, Jan-Feb 1938)
Degenerate Art Exhibition (Munich, 19th July - 30th November 1937)
Andre Breton, 'The New Spirit' [Book] L'espirit Nouveau
'De Stijl' Journal dedicated their November 1918 issue to Apollinaire after he died
'L'espirit Nouveau' Journal dedicated a special issue to Apollinaire
Breton tried to organise conference to discuss 'L'espirit Nouveau'
World War 1
WW2
Dada arrives in Paris between 1920 - 21
Dali joined the surrealist group
Walter Benjamin discovers surrealism (1926-7)
Walter Benjamin, 'Surrealism: The Last Snapshot of the European Intelligentsia' (1929) [Essay]
Masson returned to the surrealist group
Masson leaves the surrealist group
Masson declares his commitment to the communism
Masson re-affirms his commitment to communism
Andre Masson, 'Anatomy of my Universe' (1943) [Book]
Very significant year in surrealism
Theodor Adorno, 'Looking Back on Surrealism' (1956) [Book]
Magritte moves to Paris to be closer to the Paris surrealist group
Freud writes to Breton about surrealism
Freud's 'heimlich' and 'unheimlich' text enters into art history
Rosalind Krauss, 'The Photographic Conditions of Surrealism' (Winter 1981) [October Journal]
L'Amour fou: Photography and Surrealism Exhibition, curated by Rosalind Krauss and Jane Livingston (1985)
Magritte's crisis (1939-41)
Andre Breton, 'Crisis of the Object' (1936) [Essay]
Surrealism's Object Craze
Exposition Internationale du Surealisme (EROS) Exhibition
An interest in the 'abject' becomes the 'central impulse of 1990s art'
'Documents' [Journal] (Ran from 1929-1930)
Re-discovery of 'Documents' journal at The Spirit of Surrealism Exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art (Oct-Nov 1979)
Reintroduction of Bataille/ formless/ abjection in Formless Exhibition at the Pompidou organised by Rosalind Krauss and Yve Alain-Bois
PCF in crisis - undergoes a series of changes
Aaragon's work heavily criticised during this time
Aragon was the French delegate at the Kharkov conference (Association of Proletarian Writers [RAPP] at the Third International Congress)
Paris Colonial Exhibition (1931)
Exposition surrealiste d'objects, Charles Ratton Gallery, Paris (1936)
International Surrealist Exhibition in London
Charles Ratton exhibition of Eskimo and North Western Coast Art (1931/2)
Rif War (war between colonial power of Spain and the tribes of Morocco)
French intervention in the Rif war
Moscow Show Trials and ultimate exit of surrealists from PCF
Aragon shift from automatic poems to socialist realism
Algerian War for Independence - helped re-politicise the surrealists as an anti-colonial movement
Surrealism enters the fantastic/ the magical
Surrealists create new Journal called VVV
Breton's involvement with organised communism
Picasso's surrealist era
Minotaur Journal ran from Feb 1933 - 1939
German occupation of France
Many surrealists re-congregate in Breton's house in Marseille
Breton has his own gallery in Paris
Bief surrealist journal started
La Breche surrealist journal founded
Medium journal restarted again
Critics make comparisons between Pop Art and surrealism
Return of Duchamp at the Challenge and Defy Exhibition at the Sidney Janis Gallery, NY
Discourse of the 1960s dominated by Cagian theory and factualism/ literalist sensibility/ minimalism/
Dada, Surrealism and Their Heritage Exhibition at MoMA
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