Encyclopedia > The Surrealist Movement in the United States
The Surrealist Movement in the United States was started by the Chicago Surrealist Group as a means of including many of its scattered participants from coast to coast on collective statements and in collective activities. Formed in the summer of 1966 by Franklin and Penelope Rosemont with the encouragement of André Breton and the Surrealist Group in Paris, as well as the surrealists of many other countries, the Chicago Surrealist Group has carried on its wide-ranging research and agitation uninterruptedly ever since; the group has long been recognized as one of the most active, innovative and prolific in the international surrealist movement.
"What is Surrealism?: Selected Writings of André Breton" (edited and with an Introduction by Franklin Rosemont).
"Surrealist Subversions: Rants, Writings, and Images by the Surrealist Movement in the United States" (edited with an introduction by Ron Sakolsky).
"The Forecast is Hot!: Tracts and Other Collective Declarations of the Surrealist Movement in the United States 1966-76" (edited by Franklin Rosemont, Penelope Rosemont, and Paul Garon).
External links
The Surrealist Group in St. Louis
The Portland Surrealist Group (http://www.zazie.at/Portland/00_WebPages/Index.htm/)
The Surrealist Movement in the United States (http://www.surrealistmovement-usa.org)
"Counterclockwise": Manifesto of the Surrealist Group in Wisconsin (http://my.execpc.com/~bogartte/Counterclockwise.html)
The SurrealistMovement in the UnitedStates was started by the Chicago Surrealist Group as a means of including many of its scattered participants from coast to coast on collective statements and in collective activities.
Only recently have other surrealist groups formed in the UnitedStates, such as the Wisconsin Surrealist Group, the Portland Surrealist Group in Oregon, the Seattle Surrealist Group, the Houston Surrealist Group, the Blue Feathers group in Minnesota, the Honolulu Surrealist Group, the Surrealist Group in St. Louis, and a collection of surrealists in San Francisco.
The SurrealistMovement in the UnitedStates should be distinguished from "the surrealistmovement in the UnitedStates," which describes any surrealist activity in the UnitedStates, as opposed to the organisation.
Although surrealism is related to the earlier Dada movement, and many of its initial members came from Dada, it is significantly broader in scope than the Dada movement.
Although it is often falsely stated that surrealism ended either during or shortly after the Second World War, or with the death of Breton in 1966, the 1960s in fact saw a dramatic expansion of international surrealism, including the founding of the SurrealistMovement in the UnitedStates[?] by Franklin and Penelope Rosemont[?].
Other surrealist groups were later founded in the UnitedStates, such as the Portland Surrealist Group[?] of Oregon, and the Houston Surrealist Group[?].
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