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The Chicago Surrealist Group was founded in July, 1966 by Franklin and Penelope Rosemont, after their 1965 trip to Paris in which they met André Breton and attended meetings of the Paris Surrealist Group. Its initial members came from radical backgrounds such as the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and indeed the Chicago Surrealist Group edited an issue of Radical America, the SDS journal. July is the seventh month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ...
1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) // Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. ...
Franklin Rosemont (born October 2, 1943) was co founder of the Surrealist Movement in the United States. ...
Penelope Rosemont (born 1942 Chicago, Illinois). ...
1965 was a common year starting on Friday (link goes to calendar). ...
The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ...
André Breton (February 18, 1896 – September 28, 1966) was a French writer, poet, and surrealist theorist. ...
The IWW Label The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or the Wobblies) is an international union headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. It contends that all workers should be united within a single union as a class and the profit system abolished. ...
The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was a radical student activist movement in the United states founded in 1959. ...
The group played a major role in organizing the 1976 World Surrealist Exhibition in Chicago, the surrealist issue of the journal Race Traitor, and the first exhibition of exquisite corpses in the United States, "Totems Without Taboos," at the Heartland Cafe in Chicago. The World Surrealist Exhibition was held at Gallery Black Swan in Chicago in 1976. ...
Chicago, colloquially known as the Second City and the Windy City, is the third-largest city in population in the United States and the largest inland city in the country. ...
Race Traitor is a derogatory term used by racists (of any race) for those who are of their own race, but who dont share their views, or who work against their interests, or who have intimate relationships with members of other races. [1] Race Traitor is also a quarterly...
Exquisite corpse (also known as exquisite cadaver) is a method by which a collection of words or images are collectively assembled, the result being known as the exquisite corpse or cadavre exquis in French. ...
Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ...
It has published a sporadically-appearing newspaper, WHAT Are You Going To Do About It? and journal, Arsenal/Surrealist Subversions.
Among the participants in the group's activities have been Clarence John Laughlin, Gerome Kamrowski and Philip Lamantia. As these participants were based in other cities may show, the group has always had a not strictly geographically-limited delineation. The group has worked with others, such as the Stockholm Surrealist Group, with which it met in Chicago and Stockholm in 1986, publishing the International Surrealist Bulletin No. 1.[1] Clarence John Laughlin, American photographer 1905-1985 Laughlin was born in 1905 to a middle class family in Lake Charles, Louisiana. ...
Gerome Kamrowski (January 29, 1914 - March 27, 2004) was an American artist and participant in the Surrealist Movement in the United States. ...
Philip Lamantia (b. ...
Stockholm? is the capital and the largest city in Sweden. ...
1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Chicago Surrealist Group has been frequently criticsed; for instance, described by Rain Taxi Review of Books as in "aesthetic stasis" and having an "orthodox interpretation" of surrealism.
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