In preparation for next week’s class, March 5, which will be held at NAC, please read the following:
1. An English Translation of the Refus global.
2. The CBC archives of recordings about the Refus global and the Automatistes.
3. Andre Breton’s “Manifesto of Surrealism,” 1924. Focus on the part preceding the line of circles that look like this:
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This is our introduction to the avant-garde, which some scholars argue is outside and separate from modernity, whereas others claim is integral to it. What do you think?
Check out the lovely poster for the event, as well as the press release, and remember, that, as Breton writes: “the marvelous is always beautiful, anything marvelous is beautiful, in fact only the marvelous is beautiful.”
– Prof Steer
