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LINKS
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disastrous exhibition of 2009 |
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LINKS
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disastrous exhibition of 2009 |
 Tristan Schane |
 Lee-Anne Raymond |
 Nelly Chichlakova dead link |
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 Mike Turner |
 Wolfgang Grasse |
 vakras (other site) |
 Daniel Ouellette |
 Metal Couture |
 Haruguchi |
 Bernard Dumaine |
 Kano |
 Vakras on FaceBook |
 PhantastArt |
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Vakras "fantasy" art
an illustrated catalogue featuring the art of Vakras as well as that of artist
Lee-Anne Raymond is now available! Click onto link below:
established surrealists / artists of fantastic realism
Links
below are to online references and to books (my recommendations
available on Amazon - except for Dalí & Giger, on whom very
many books exist).
 Salvador Dalí |
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 H. R. Giger |
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books on Surrealism in general place the movement between the 2 world
wars. Anglophone historians seem to have concluded that there is no
historical continuum or context that either precedes or postdates
Surrealism. For them history floats in some void that only they have
the privilege of seeing. French authors do not suffer the Anglophonic
myopia. Thankfully, French authors' writings on Surrealism exist in
translation. René Passeron, in his book, devotes time to the
historical context of surrealism's precursors which includes artists
such as Bosch, and the Symbolists. So too does Sarane Alexandrian
include Surrealism's precursors, but goes further to write on
surrealist artists until the death of Breton in 1966. The most
interesting element in Alexandrian's book (at least in the out–of–print
edition I own) is the final chapter on "Occultation" in which
Alexandrian writes on Breton's L'Art Magique written in 1957 (which appears not to
have been translated into English). In this tome Breton left the door
ajar for surrealism to include among its numbers religious kooks who
imagine that they are "visionary" or "shamans". Schneede, a German author, includes an interesting historical context, which shows how Dada evolved out of the Italian Furturists whose antics the French Dadaists emmulated. Surrealsist theorists, both French and English, have ignored the Futurists. Both English and French theorists claim that Dada arose as a rejection of the cutlure that led to the 1st world war. The Futurists however were already producing counter–cultural "art" well before the war, so the claimed historical context understood by Frankophone and Anglophone alike is an invention. |
new Redleg V Artists site
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