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Express your surrealism in a European desert setting

Cara — Sat, 24 May 2008 11:52:00 GMT

Have you ever been Nowhere?

A place where you cease to exist as you do in the default world, where your relationships with those around are based not on "What can you do for me?" but "What can we do together?", a place where Radical Self-Expression and Radical Self-Reliance become Radical Realities.

Nowhere is a 5 day event in Northern Spain, based upon the principles of Burning Man in Nevada, it is an experiment in participatory creation where everyone holds a piece of the puzzle.

We truly are a Leave No Trace event. You must bring everything you need to survive in a harsh desert environment. There is no commerce at Nowhere. No money. No shopping. If You need something, You make it happen.. And everything you bring you are responsible for taking away.

Nowhere explodes into existence for 5 amazing days, it's participants bringing art, music, life, love, chaos and adventure into a world that has lost sense of the primal reasons for existence... then it fades back to the dust from which it blossomed.

A gift economy, radical self expression, radical self reliance, leave no trace and no spectators.... these guiding lights, and the natural filter of
the desert, mean that Nowhere is not for everyone. But if you are one of those who value human interaction over financial exchange, who love to create just for the sheer joy of creating, who are one of "... the mad ones, the ones mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing but burn, burn, burn like fabulous roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars..."

then maybe Nowhere is for you

Go to http://www.goingnowhere.org to find out more

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Tarot and Fine Surrealistic Art for X-Mass!

an-magi — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:28:00 GMT

Hello my fellow Surrealists!
Just a quick note to let you know that the latest 2008 updated Limited Edition Signed Tarot of the Pomegranate decks are available now:
www.tarotofthepomegranate.com/Tar...html
Visit my BAZAAR page for gifts too, and not just Tarot decks but prints, readings, original paintings and merchandise:
www.tarotofthepomegranate.com/baz...html
Blessings,
An-Magrith
P.S. Feel free to join my "Tarot of the Pomegranate" tribe for more Tarot fun!
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StarFish Journal

Robert — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:13:16 GMT

just letting people know that the latest issue of The StarFish Journal has gone live as a PDF file, and that the all-new visual gallery is up and running...check it out:

http://starfishpoetry.net/current.htm

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New Site Dead-icated to the Horror Arts!

Adrenalyn — Tue, 29 May 2007 19:22:40 GMT

Hi! I just wanted to let you know that our revised site is up and we would like you to stop by and check it out! We bring the best and most original forms of horror indie art to you, all in one place. We focus on non-corporate funded but unique artist from all venues – stage, films, music, photography and writing.

Let us know what you think – www.cadavergirls.com

Sin-cerely,
Adrenalyn

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unexpected journeys ~ remedios varo

Fri, 28 May 2004 17:25:32 GMT

have you read this book? by janet kaplan, on the life and art of remedios varo. it is very good. so inspiring.
if you have, what do y ou think? i would love to discuss....

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Remedios Varo

dianalynnlaw — Thu, 29 Jan 2004 05:40:32 GMT

Remedios Varo was born in Spain. She was educated in a Catholic school before going to the University in Barcelona, the same one that Dali studied at. She married young in order to escape her stifling family life and at once became at home with the bohemian art life. She moved to Paris and became involved with the Surrealists, eventually marrying Benjamin Peret, who was famous for insulting a Catholic priest in the street. After the start of World War 2, she fled to Mexico, where she supported herself and Peret by doing commercial art jobs. She was a great friend of Leonora CArrington who also was a surrealist painter and also moved to Mexico. She later married a publisher who supported her and gave her the capability to paint full time.

I have done the sort of super short version of her life to save on space, but anyone feel free to add with more info or comments. ;)

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Metamorphosis - Contemporary Surreal, Fantastic and Visonary Artists

leo-plaw — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:56:53 GMT

It's here! Metamorphosis! Its finally emerged from its chrysalis in the form of a Hard Cover Art Book with a Dust Jacket, 112 A4 gloss pages, with 122 High res plates.

Female artists who are represented are:

# Carrie Ann Baade
# Kim Evans
# Martina Hoffmann
# Maura Holden
# Bonny hut
# Pauline Jones
# Laurie Lipton
# Brigid Marlin

I recieved my copy two weeks ago, and it looks just beautiful. Jon Beinart has done a superb job on the book. It looks every bit professional. I've spoken to a number of the other artists included in the book and they are all just as equally excited. It is truely inspirational to see so many wonderful artists creating works of such quality and power.

Metamorphosis shows us how wide and varied the visions are of the artists working in this vein of art.

More detailed information about the book can be found on the following website http://beinart.org/shop/metamorphosis.php

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beinArt International Surreal Art Collective

leo-plaw — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 23:35:38 GMT

After many months of work collaborating with Jon Beinart (http://jonbeinart.com) I'm very pleased and proud to announce the launch of our pet project, beinart.org.

The site features more than 180 artists working in the feilds of Surrealism, Fantastic Realism, Comic Surrealism, Pop Surrealism, Lowbrow, Magic Realism, Visionary, Psychedelic, Esoteric, Occult, Mystic, Tarot, Pagan, Gothic, Macabre, Underground, Outsider, Intuative, Fantasy, Erotic & Surreal Art.

Each artist has an overview of their artwork, short bio or statement and link to their personal website.

We have a good showing of female artists on the site and have been actively seeking them out.

The site has much to offer and warrents many return visits. I also suggest that you share the link around with as many people possible. Share the joy!

http://beinart.org

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Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

temporarygirl — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 15:16:11 GMT

I found out about Baroness Elsa through Renee Steinke's novel "Holy Skirts" (which I HIGHLY recommend for anyone interested in Dada or the New York avant-garde literary scene) and have quickly fallen in love with her - the proto-punk performance art of her costumes (shaving her hair off and dying the stubble scarlet, wearing birthday cakes and birdcages as hats, constructing dresses out of bicycle parts and safety pins), her odd "found object" sculptures, and her poetry, which is absolutely explosive. Here's a short example:

APPALLING HEART
City stir——wind on eardrum——
dancewind : herbstained——
flowerstained——silken——rustling——
tripping——swishing——frolicking——
courtesing——careening——brushing——
flowing——lying down——bending——
teasing——kissing : treearms——grass——
limbs——lips.
City stir on eardrum—— .
In night lonely
peers—— :
moon——riding !
pale——with beauty aghast——
too exalted to share !
in space blue——rides she away from mine chest——
illumined strangely——
appalling sister !

Herbstained——flowerstained——
shellscented——seafaring——
foresthunting——junglewise——
desert gazing——
rides heart from chest——
lashing with beauty——
afleet——
across chimney——
tinfoil river——
to meet——
another's dark heart——

Bless mine feet !

She seems to love the play of words, the surprising conjunction of them. Does anyone know if and where I can find more of her work? I know that there is a volume of selected poems out there somewhere, but I can't seem to locate it.

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Tarot of the Pomegranate decks available!

an-magi — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 14:37:29 GMT

Dear Friends,
This is to inform you that my "Tarot deck in progress.." on my Tarot of the Pomegranate site is NOW available!!
I have added four more new cards to the deck, including Magician, Emperor, Judgement and King of Wands.
This is a limited edition deck in progress, and as I complete paintings I will send you the current card to add to your deck.
Join me in my journey!
To purchase your deck through Paypal go to the bazaar on my site:

http://www.tarotofthepomegranate.com/bazaar.html

Thanks for your interest and support in Tarot of the Pomegranate!
xox
An-Magrith Erlandsen

www.tarotofthepomegranate.com

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SF female painters/artists?

TheArtistNoMe — Tue, 24 May 2005 02:33:24 GMT

So where are all the female artists in SF (and beyond)?!!!
I know women are just as capable as men but there always seems
to be a lack of female talent out in the 'creative' world.

A friend and I were just talking , putting a show together and
we could only come up with a few female artists - Alicia McCarthy,Kelly Tunstall, Tiffany Bozic - we would consider while there were a plethora of male.

Please ladies, I know you're good at all kinds of other 'arts' but
ya gotta represent.

Anyone makin' art out there? Please direct me to your websites or
tell where I may see some good urban, surreal, contemporary
works made by the female hand.

Much thanx.

- NoMe.

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Difference between Surrealism and symbolist/

2JenniferD8 — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 01:08:53 GMT

I wanted to post a link to an incredible artist, but I wasn't sure if she fit onto this tibe.

Is her work, surrealist or symbolist?

What is the label, "genre' for current artists who create fantastical art? I mean hasn't surrealism mustated into other forms, can we really call stuff made today, surrealist? Or Symbolist?

check Julie Heffernan out, and let me know what you think (the reproductions don't do her paintings justice!)

http://www.paulkopeikingallery.com/artists/heffernan/index.htm

Curious to hear what you think.

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Nina's New Website

ninapak — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 05:46:55 GMT

My new website is finally finished.
If you have a chance to check it out, please let me know how it functions in your browser.
We are still working out the bugs and would appreciate any feedback you can give us.
I designed the site in photoshop, but my husband Ilia made it work. It was a big learning
experience for me. I’m just happy to have some new work up, and a better website.
Here is the link: http://www.dreamloka.com/

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VSA arts Virginia: Call for Art

krishanna — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:09:27 GMT

VSA arts of Virginia is pleased to announce new visual art exhibition opportunities for artists with disabilities and others with limited access to the arts. VSAVA's Outside The Lines exhibition program is open to artists with disabilities and others with limited arts access, nationwide . Outside the Lines offers opportunities to showcase work for sale while learning how to professionally submit and present art for consideration in juried and curated art exhibitions. Exhibitions begin February 2007 in 4 different venues in the greater richmond area. Arts organizations and human services agencies are welcome as well. Deadline for submissions is January 1, 2007.

For eligibility and application guidelines for Outside the Lines contact:

Krishanna Spencer
Outside the Lines- Exhibitions
VSA arts of Virginia
Zero E 4th Street, #50
RIchmond, VA 23224
Phone:804.230.0246 Fax: 804.230.0247
Email: kspencer@vsava.org

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Maura Holden Interview on Lila

daniel mirante — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 14:40:25 GMT

http://lila.info/

Maura Holden : Painting from the Hypersea of Spirit
Dialogue between Maura Holden and Daniel Mirante

Maura Holden, born in Pennsylvania in 1967, is emerging as one of the most powerful and interesting visionary or transpersonal artists of the present time. Combining both excellent draftsmanship with a lucid sense of colour, Maura depicts the secret vistas of the collective psyche, the sunken, honeycombed ruins of mysterious ancient civilisations (see Travellers Moon), the paradisiacal and primordial bliss of our ancestors living within a shamanic dreamtime, and, in one of her paintings, Thanatos Wave, (below) what looks like the sudden, mass-onset of transpersonal awareness or surfacing of deep unconscious material (represented by deep sea fish and ocean) overthrowing old and stagnant orders of being.

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Surprised there is no Dali in any of the Surrealism tribe groups....

Mon, 22 May 2006 07:51:42 GMT

Joined this one since there are so many members.... and wanted to ask a question.

What do you think about Salvador Dali including his wife throughout his work? He often painted her into his work and stated in a video that she was the center of him and the love of his life. I understand she did not perform the artwork herself, but she did play a key role into Salvador's symbolism.... Love for that matter, jealousy, and fear of loss.

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MISSING MINA LOY......

confetta — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 00:51:42 GMT

If you would like to learn more about Mina Loy will want to visit the Arthur Craven Tribe:

http://tribes.tribe.net/boxingtonight

oxo

~confetta

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MINA LOY
*****************************

Mina Loy
~From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mina_Loy

Mina Loy (December 27, 1882 - September 25, 1966) was an artist, poet, Futurist, actor, Christian Scientist, designer of lamps and bohemian extraordinaire. She was one of the last of the first generation modernists to achieve posthumous recognition. Her poetry was admired by T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and William Carlos Williams.

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Early Life
*****************************

Loy was born Mina Gertrude Lowy in London. On leaving school, she studied painting, first in Munich for two years and then in London, where one of her teachers was Augustus John. She moved to Paris, France with Stephen Haweis who studied with her at the Acad?mie Colarossi. The couple married in 1903, at which point Mina changed her name to Loy.

Loy soon became a regular at Gertrude Stein's salon, where she met many of the leading avant garde artists and writers of the day. She and Stein were to remain lifelong friends. In 1905, Loy and Haweis moved to Florence where they lived more or less separate lives. Loy mixed with the expatriate community and the Futurists, having a relationship with their leader Filippo Marinetti. She started to publish her poems in New York magazines. She was a key figure in the group that formed around Others magazine, which also included Man Ray, William Carlos Williams and Marianne Moore. She also became a Christian Scientist at this time.

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Loy and Arthur Cravan
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Disillusioned with the Futurists' move towards Fascism and wanting a divorce, Loy moved to New York in 1916, where she began acting with the Provincetown Players. She soon became a leading member of the Greenwich Village bohemian circuit. Here she met the 'poet-boxer' Arthur Cravan, self-styled Dadaist and fugitive from conscription. Cravan fled to Mexico; when Loy's divorce came through she followed him, and they married in Mexico City. A few months later, Cravan set sail from Mexico in a small yacht. He was never seen again.

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Back to Europe
*****************************

Loy returned to Europe, partly to search for Cravan. She was unable to accept his death, and in 1920 she returned to New York, still searching. Here she returned to her old Greenwich Village life, acting and mixing with her fellow writers. In 1923, she returned to Paris and, with the backing of Peggy Guggenheim, started a business designing and making lampshades, glass novelties, paper cut-outs and painted flower arrangements. Her first book, Lunar Baedecker was also published that year. She picked up old friendships with Djuna Barnes and Gertrude Stein.

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Later life and work
*****************************

In 1936, Loy returned to New York and lived for a time with her daughter in Manhattan. She moved to the Bowery, where she became interested in the Bowery bums, writing poems and creating found art collages on them. She finally moved to Colorado to live with her daughters. In 1946, she became a naturalized citizen of the United States. Her second and last book, Lunar Baedeker & Time Tables appeared in 1958 and she exhibited her constructions in New York in 1951. In Colorado, she continued to write and work on her junk collages up to her death.

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POEMS
*****************************

Lunar Baedeker

~by Mina Loy

A silver Lucifer

serves

cocaine in cornucopia

To some somnambulists

of adolescent thighs

draped

in satirical draperies

Peris in livery

prepare

Lethe

for posthumous parvenues

Delirious Avenues

lit

with the chandelier souls

of infusoria

from Pharoah's tombstones

lead

to mercurial doomsdays

Odious oasis

in furrowed phosphorous---

the eye-white sky-light

white-light district

of lunar lusts

---Stellectric signs

"Wing shows on Starway"

"Zodiac carrousel"

Cyclones

of ecstatic dust

and ashes whirl

crusaders

from hallucinatory citadels

of shattered glass

into evacuate craters

A flock of dreams

browse on Necropolis

From the shores

of oval oceans

in the oxidized Orient

Onyx-eyed Odalisques

and ornithologists

observe

the flight

of Eros obsolete

And "Immortality"

mildews...

in the museums of the moon

"Nocturnal cyclops"

"Crystal concubine"

Pocked with personification

the fossil virgin of the skies

waxes and wanes----

*****************************

Moreover, the Moon

~by Mina Loy

Face of the skies

preside

over our wonder.

Fluorescent

truant of heaven

draw us under.

Silver, circular corpse

your decease

infects us with unendurable ease,

touching nerve-terminals

to thermal icicles

Coercive as coma, frail as bloom

innuendoes of your inverse dawn

suffuse the self;

our every corpuscle become an elf.

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References
*****************************

Mina Loy
http://www.modjourn.brown.edu/mjp/Im...Loy/Loy.htm

Mina Loy (1882-1966)
www.modjourn.brown.edu/mjp/Im...Loy/Loy.htm

Mina Loy at Modern American Poetry
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/po...g_l/loy/loy.htm

Becoming Modern — The Life of Mina Loy by Carolyn Burke
http://www.carolynburke.com/

Mina Loy Links Page
http://www.cwru.edu/artsci/engl...LM/mod/wolkowski/

~confetta
people.tribe.net/confetta

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Lila Visionary Art forum

daniel mirante — Wed, 31 May 2006 21:16:24 GMT

http://www.lila.info/phpBB2/index.php

Lila's redesigned and de-spammed visionary art and medicine culture forum, ready to go (except currently lacking a top logo graphic, but coming soon).

All welcome, all welcome...

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Mina Loy & Arthur Cravan.....

confetta — Wed, 31 May 2006 02:59:43 GMT

Mina was married to an eccentric....

his name was Arthur Cravan.

I think theauZe interested in
Mina would love this TRIBE!

Quite a bit to do with dada surrealism and Mina too!

JOIN IT NOW!

http://tribes.tribe.net/boxingtonight

This tribe is dedicated to discussion and speculation on the life and works of Arthur Cravan ( born May 22, 1887, Lausanne, last seen at Salina Cruz, Mexico in 1918 and most likely drowned in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexico in November 1918), pugilist and poet, was a larger-than-life character, and an idol of the Dada and Surrealism movements.

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remedios varo

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:22:22 GMT

She was born in Angles, Spain in 1908, died in 1963. Her paintings are amazing, of dreams, imagery, though not very well-known. It has been said that she may have studied with Dali. One of my favorites, "Fenomeno", from '62, a man is a walking shadow, and his shadow holds his face and tie.

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MuSiDoRa

confetta — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 02:13:07 GMT

***************
MuSiDoRa
***************

Musidora was the star
of Louis Feuillade's 1915
silent film LES VAMPIRES.

members.aol.com/MG4273/feu...d.htm#LesVampires

She was one of the greatest stars of the French silent cinema, Musidora began her life as Jeanne Roques in Paris, February 23, 1889. Brought up by a feminist mother, Musidora wrote her first novel at age fifteen. She gained fame playing France's first screen vamp, Irma Vep (an anagram of "vampire") in Louis Feuillade's 1915-16 film series, Les Vampires. She played its femme fatale with great aplomb, appearing in each of its ten semi-independent episodes in a different disguise, both male and female. But Musidora was more than a film actress, she was a novelist, poet, dancer painter, songwriter and playwright. Yet there is very little historical attention to Musidora's off-screen film roles, despite the fact that she became a film director at a time when very few women had such opportunities. At her death in 1957, she left behind seven unpublished screenplays and several films that she directed or co-directed.

LES VAMPIRES 1915 Crime / Thriller
frenchfilms.topcities.com/index...ml#frenchfilms.topcities.com/nf_lf...lade.html

Les Vampires (1915)
www.imdb.com/title/tt0006206/

********************
Louis Feuillade
********************

~From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Feuillade

Louis Feuillade (February 19, 1873 – February 25, 1925) was a French film director from the silent era.

He was born in Lunel, Hrault, in southern France. Originally a wine merchant and journalist, Feuillade began his film career at Gaumont in 1905.

He directed several hundred short and serial films from 1906 to 1924. His most important works include three convoluted serial thrillers, Fantomas (1913), Les Vampires (1915), and Judex (1916).

He is credited with developing many of the thriller techniques used famously by Fritz Lang, Alfred Hitchcock, and others.

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*SEE ALSO:
***************

IRMA VEP
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irma_Vep

"Les Vampires' is one of France's great classic contributions to the world of popular cinema..."
www.sover.net/~ozus/lesvampires.htm

~Confetta
people.tribe.net/confetta

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MINA LOY

confetta — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 02:04:14 GMT

*****************************
MINA LOY
*****************************

Mina Loy
~From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mina_Loy

Mina Loy (December 27, 1882 - September 25, 1966) was an artist, poet, Futurist, actor, Christian Scientist, designer of lamps and bohemian extraordinaire. She was one of the last of the first generation modernists to achieve posthumous recognition. Her poetry was admired by T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and William Carlos Williams.

*****************************
Early Life
*****************************

Loy was born Mina Gertrude Lowy in London. On leaving school, she studied painting, first in Munich for two years and then in London, where one of her teachers was Augustus John. She moved to Paris, France with Stephen Haweis who studied with her at the Acad?mie Colarossi. The couple married in 1903, at which point Mina changed her name to Loy.

Loy soon became a regular at Gertrude Stein's salon, where she met many of the leading avant garde artists and writers of the day. She and Stein were to remain lifelong friends. In 1905, Loy and Haweis moved to Florence where they lived more or less separate lives. Loy mixed with the expatriate community and the Futurists, having a relationship with their leader Filippo Marinetti. She started to publish her poems in New York magazines. She was a key figure in the group that formed around Others magazine, which also included Man Ray, William Carlos Williams and Marianne Moore. She also became a Christian Scientist at this time.

*****************************
Loy and Arthur Cravan
*****************************

Disillusioned with the Futurists' move towards Fascism and wanting a divorce, Loy moved to New York in 1916, where she began acting with the Provincetown Players. She soon became a leading member of the Greenwich Village bohemian circuit. Here she met the 'poet-boxer' Arthur Cravan, self-styled Dadaist and fugitive from conscription. Cravan fled to Mexico; when Loy's divorce came through she followed him, and they married in Mexico City. A few months later, Cravan set sail from Mexico in a small yacht. He was never seen again.

*****************************
Back to Europe
*****************************

Loy returned to Europe, partly to search for Cravan. She was unable to accept his death, and in 1920 she returned to New York, still searching. Here she returned to her old Greenwich Village life, acting and mixing with her fellow writers. In 1923, she returned to Paris and, with the backing of Peggy Guggenheim, started a business designing and making lampshades, glass novelties, paper cut-outs and painted flower arrangements. Her first book, Lunar Baedecker was also published that year. She picked up old friendships with Djuna Barnes and Gertrude Stein.

*****************************
Later life and work
*****************************

In 1936, Loy returned to New York and lived for a time with her daughter in Manhattan. She moved to the Bowery, where she became interested in the Bowery bums, writing poems and creating found art collages on them. She finally moved to Colorado to live with her daughters. In 1946, she became a naturalized citizen of the United States. Her second and last book, Lunar Baedeker & Time Tables appeared in 1958 and she exhibited her constructions in New York in 1951. In Colorado, she continued to write and work on her junk collages up to her death.

*****************************
POEMS
*****************************

Lunar Baedeker

~by Mina Loy

A silver Lucifer

serves

cocaine in cornucopia

To some somnambulists

of adolescent thighs

draped

in satirical draperies

Peris in livery

prepare

Lethe

for posthumous parvenues

Delirious Avenues

lit

with the chandelier souls

of infusoria

from Pharoah's tombstones

lead

to mercurial doomsdays

Odious oasis

in furrowed phosphorous---

the eye-white sky-light

white-light district

of lunar lusts

---Stellectric signs

"Wing shows on Starway"

"Zodiac carrousel"

Cyclones

of ecstatic dust

and ashes whirl

crusaders

from hallucinatory citadels

of shattered glass

into evacuate craters

A flock of dreams

browse on Necropolis

From the shores

of oval oceans

in the oxidized Orient

Onyx-eyed Odalisques

and ornithologists

observe

the flight

of Eros obsolete

And "Immortality"

mildews...

in the museums of the moon

"Nocturnal cyclops"

"Crystal concubine"

Pocked with personification

the fossil virgin of the skies

waxes and wanes----

*****************************

Moreover, the Moon

~by Mina Loy

Face of the skies

preside

over our wonder.

Fluorescent

truant of heaven

draw us under.

Silver, circular corpse

your decease

infects us with unendurable ease,

touching nerve-terminals

to thermal icicles

Coercive as coma, frail as bloom

innuendoes of your inverse dawn

suffuse the self;

our every corpuscle become an elf.

*****************************
References
*****************************

Mina Loy
www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/95

Mina Loy (1882-1966)
www.modjourn.brown.edu/mjp/Im...Loy/Loy.htm

Mina Loy at Modern American Poetry
www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/po...g_l/loy/loy.htm

Becoming Modern — The Life of Mina Loy by Carolyn Burke
www.carolynburke.com/

Mina Loy Links Page
www.cwru.edu/artsci/engl...LM/mod/wolkowski/

~confetta
http://people.tribe.net/confetta

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The week of Frida

Laura — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 16:00:24 GMT

Happy birthday Frida Kahlo.

Frida's life began and ended in Mexico City, in her home known as the Blue House. She gave her birthdate as July 7, 1910, but her birth certificate shows July 6, 1907. This is just one of the many lies Frida told about her life.

On July 13, 1954, Frida died. No official autopsy was done. Suicide is rumored. Her last words in her diary read "I hope the leaving is joyful and I hope never to return".

Celebrate the week of Frida.

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folk-street-surrealism?

ensalada_de_frutas — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 02:39:56 GMT

check out Ladybird! this chica is throwin down some cah-razy "folk-street-surrealism?" on the island called England

www.storiesfromspace.co.uk/data...l/mossgraffiti.html

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Kay Sage

dianalynnlaw — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 21:21:54 GMT

Kay Sage (1898-1963)
Margin of Silence
Oil on canvas, 1942
AIHA Collection

Born in Albany, Sage attended art classes in Washington, but it was not until 1918 when she went to live in Rome that she began to study art seriously. In 1937 she moved to Paris and met Yves Tanguy whose painting she greatly admired. She began painting in the Surrealist style, influenced by the works by DeChirico, Dali and Tanguy, whom she married in 1940.

By the early 1940s, Sage had moved away from biomorphism and established her own vocabulary of "sharp, spiny forms," covered by rigid draperies, sometimes suggesting figurative shapes beneath.

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UniCa ZurN EXHIBIT in NEW YORK!!

confetta — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 16:34:03 GMT

Date & Time: Thursday, January 13 2005 - Saturday, April 16 2005
9:00 PM
Location: UBU GALLERY
416 East 59th Street
New York, NY view map
More Info: 212 753 4444
http://www.ubugallery.com/phpwcms/?current IF YOU LIVE IN NEW YORK...or are VISITING....
Don't miss this rare opportunity to SEE a Unica Zurn exhibit!

I promise to be jealous of you!!

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UNICA ZURN: Drawings from the 1960s

Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 11:00 am - 6:00 pm

Ubu Gallery presents an exhibition of works by the tormented and visionary Unica Zurn. Born in Berlin on July 6, 1916, Zurn grew up surrounded by exotic, ephemeral objects collected by her father, a cavalry officer stationed in Africa. Inspired perhaps in part by her father's gifts from afar and a longing for greater contact with him, Zurn developed a rich fantasy life and a vivid imagination. This is evidenced in her dense, otherworldly drawings of fantastical creatures meticulously constructed out of finely rendered, obsessively repetitive shapes and lines. Already an accomplished author, Zurn produced most of her oeuvre during the 1950s and 60s while involved with the German Surrealist, Hans Bellmer. With Bellmer's encouragement, Zurn began to experiment with & "automatic" drawings and anagrams, natural extensions of her established interest in hidden meanings and coincidences. Most of the drawings in the exhibition were made during the 1960s - an intensely productive period for Zurn - though one marked by her deteriorating mental health and the unraveling of her relationship with Bellmer. On October 19, 1970, Zurn leapt to her death from the balcony of the Paris apartment she had shared with Bellmer. Upon his death in 1975, Bellmer was buried, at his request, next to Zurn in a Paris Cemetery. Their grave is marked with the words Bellmer wrote for Zurns funeral wreath nearly five years before: "My love will follow you into Eternity".

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Leonora Carrington

dianalynnlaw — Tue, 01 Jun 2004 02:31:49 GMT

Leonora Carrington was bornin England in 1917. Her parent tried to send her to several strict Catholic and boarding schools for a proper education, but finally gave up and let her study art. She met Max Ernst in London and he left his wife to live with her in Paris in the late 1930's. During WWII, Ernst was interred in French concentration camps because he was German. Carrington left for Spain where she was committed to an asylum by her family and given drug shock treatment. In 1942 she found out that Ernst was with Peggy Guggenheim and married a friend Renato, for a brief marriage, moved briefly to NY, and later to Mexico where she settled. She now lives between NY and Mexico. She married a Mexican and had a son there. Carrington was a close friend of Remedios Varo and they often worked on similar projects or concocted whisical "magical" potions together. Carrington has painted and exhibited pretty much contuously throughout her life. She has also written books, one of which is The Hearing Trumpet. A couple of sites to look at are: www.ed.uiuc.edu/courses/EdPsy387-Sp95/Steven-Clark/project/Carrington/Carrington.html

and this one has several links that don't seem to be working, but a few good links: www.hungryflower.com/leorem/carrington.html

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Gisele Prassinos?

blacklistedmike — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 22:20:29 GMT

Hey there -- Just joined Tribe and this group -- totally psyched to see it here -- Has anyone read the works of Gisele Prassinos? I love her writing but can't find translations (esp. decent ones) hardly anywhere.

This is what the internet says about her, FYI (sorry if it's a tad long):

http://www.kalin.lm.com/prass.html

Gisele Prassinos 1920-?

biography

Of Greek parentage, Gisele Prassinos was born in Istanbul. Her family emigrated to France when she was two years old. A precocious writer, whom Andre Breton is credited with discovering, she was only fourteen when her first texts appeared in 1934. They were published in the French surrealist-oriented magazine Minotaure and in the Belgian periodical Documents 34. The following year, her first book came out under the title La Sauterelle arthritique (The Arthritic Grasshopper), prefaced by the surrealist poet Paul Eluard, who also wrote a postface for her subsequent collection, Le Feu maniaque, in 1939.

Noting that in La Sauterelle arthritique "enchantment beats its wings among the strange attractions of crepuscular naturalism," Eluard praised in Gisele Prassinos' work the spirit of "disassociation, suppression, negation, revolt," in which he saw "the ethics of children, of poets who refuse to improve, and who will remain freaks so long as they have not awakened in all men the wish to face squarely everything separating them from themselves." Later, Le Feu maniaque prompted Eluard to remark of its author, "She offers all comers a pure moment in exchange for centuries of boredom."

Breton, for his part, declared in the Anthologie de l'Humour noir, "Gisele Prassions' tone is unique: all poets are jealous of it." That tone marks the early story reproduced here: Journoir (Blackday) dating from 1934. This text is characteristic, in that it makes us witness to the operations of a child's imagination, as yet unrestrained by the adult's sense of the world as stable and limited by rational predictability. The narrator's attitude is consistently closer to curiosity than to horror, while no moral preoccupations color her account.

Bringing together a number of her early texts under the heading Les Mots endormis (Sleeping Words), Gisele Prassinos spoke of them in 1967 as "the result of a certain absence": "There is a pocket of darkness in us that, with the help of a drowsiness of consciousness, writing succeeds in penetrating. Once the first word has been set free, the wave breaks. Then comes them moment when the pen drops, discouraged by its own hesitation. Something has intervened; returning, consciousness reclaims its rights, wishing to put things in order. Consciousness is now surprised, sometimes filled with wonder by the word from the dark, often tempted to make a contribution of its own." Born of the absence brought about by the practice of automatic writing, the stories of Gisele Prassions lend support to Eluard's affirmation that automatism "ceaselessly opens new doors on the unconscious and, as it confronts the unconscious with the conscious, with the world, increases its treasures."

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SOME OF HER STUFF:

blackday

One day, it was cold.

Over the river spread a white sheet, hiding the uniformly somber hues of that day.

When night fell, a man came up out of the water. He made for a hollow in the stone, where already a dog had taken refuge. In the light from a luminous corner of the sky, I could make the man out: he wore on his head an immense funnel of string, delicately worked and adorned with sharp pebbles, which he had had a tinker friend make, in exchange for a ball of red thread.

He seemed laden down with unrusted scrap iron for which no doubt he would go searching under the water, to sell it on the bank and take in sand.

When he became aware of the dog's presence - so far as I could tell in the dark - I think his mustache, which stuck out a long way, spread even further and took on a V shape. Terrified by this change, the dog turned its eyes to the wall and felt the end of its tail stick to the stone sides of the hole. But, seeing the stranger calm the irritability of his hair with a feverish start, it was reassured and went to curl up in a corner so as not to witness its bedfellow's prayers.

The man put down his load.

He thought this was the best thing to do and, kneeling on the wet paving stones, he invoked the solitude of the poet.

During this time, the dog, which was foraging as deep as it could in its external intestines, kept its eye half-closed, the better to watch over the silence. But, seeing by its side the still, cold bulk of the crouching man, it fell asleep, not able to put up with things any longer.

The water flowed on, its scrap iron at the bottom of its bed, awaiting only the man with his load in order to stop. There were only small waves, formed by the mechanical ebb and flow of the heavy clouds.

Day appeared with its light and its dark. The man got up, his hat on his waist and his soft mustache hardened by the night.

He went off, swept down upon the river bank and disappeared in the deep waters to look for new things.

But the dog, still young, stayed where it was.

the young persecuted girl

A young girl who was in bed was afraid lest a butterfly she saw that morning came to wake her. Before going to bed, she put on a necklace of fresh chervil and little dull glass ladybirds, striped with yellow wax cloth. She was very proud of it and thought the butterfly wouldn't dare touch here when it saw that she was not alone.

But it came anyway: on the windowpane you could see the reflection of a ball of lead, topped with two long horns of bronzed celluloid. Then the pane moved and you could not see anything. So the young girl went to sleep.

When she awakened (because one of her curls had come unrolled) the pane was back in its original place. This time she saw a little hollowed-out cube of glass, full of water, in which a number of balls of string soaked in gasoline were swimming. She wanted to get up in order to destroy this horrible vision, but the window closed violently in her face without making any noise.

Laughing uproariously, she went back to bed. She was happy because she thought the butterfly had been crushed between the two panels of the window. She pulled the bedcover over her with the soul of a pigeon to protect her.

After an hour, she awoke again because the pigeon's soul had fled. She followed it to the window but there she stopped because the wind was raising up her hair. She looked at the pane and saw a sickly little leek whose outer leaves were ragged and full of desiccated tips. Amazed, she slid on to the marble floor and closed her eyes.

She did not open them until three days later.

my sister

I know my sister smells of bananas. Her large hair, when it rubs my nose, has the ordinary smell of missed dessert. But when she turns toward me and her mouth opens to smile at me, I like the new smell so much I feel like biting her lips and tongue. Underneath there is something that cracks and carries you away.

Soon my sister will fall asleep. I take her pointed arms and cross them over her eyes so that the last light will close them altogether. But she keeps smiling triumphantly at me and the strong odor rises, so strong that suddenly I think of killing my sister in order to take it from her.

I sink my knife in, cutting through her pretty gown. Under the sheets her hands are cold and white. Mine, too alive, have no strength, but I see in her hand, a little puckered fruit made of shiny rose fragments that I melt between my fingers.

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Carmen Bruna

Shibek — Sun, 21 Nov 2004 01:26:41 GMT

I came across some online material on/by Carmen Bruna in South America. I had to translate the pages from Spanish via google, so there were some rough spots, but they are worth reading if you have a serious interest in obscure surrealist poets who happen to be women.

Carmen Bruna is also represented in Surrealist Women, the huge anthology edited by Penelope Rosemont on the University of Texas Press.

Murmur

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Three Poems by Joyce Mansour

freels — Wed, 11 Aug 2004 21:46:40 GMT

You threw my eyes in the sea
You tore my dreams out of my hands
You cut out my bluish belly button
And in the green seaweeds of my floating hair
You drowned the embryo.

***

I've stolen the yellow bird
Living in the devil's sex.
It will teach me how to seduce
Men, deer, angels with double wings.
It will take away my thirst, my clothing, my illusions
It will sleep
But my sleep runs across roofs
Murmuring, gesturing, violently making love
With cats.

***

Flies on the bed
On the ceiling in your mouth on your eyes
Lying on them sheets up to his neck
The impotent cunning ignorant man
Leave me my skin
Leave me my belly intact.

***

Joyce Mansour was a member of the surrealist group in Paris, and is one of my favorite surrealist poets. These translations by Serge Gavronsky are from Screams (Post-Apollo Press) and Torn Apart (Bitter Oleander Press).

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Louise Bourgeois

dianalynnlaw — Sat, 10 Jul 2004 19:16:05 GMT

Louise Bourgeois is an interesting artist, hard to put into a specific art movement. Although she is recognized as an abstract expressionist, she was heavily influenced by the Surrealists, and the majority of her work is autobiographical and intensely personal. In truth she explores all of her creative impulses, not restricting herself to one 'style', which I admire greatly. Wow, these amazing women who have a body of creative work spanning practically a century! She was born in 1911 in Paris. Her family had an upholstery business. She studied art in several of the best known art schools in Paris. For a bio: www.pbs.org/art21/artists/bourgeois . The main theme of her work was childhood. It is charged with sexuality and innocence and the interplay between the two. In 1995 she even did her own 'rap' song: http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibits/bourgeois/otte.html
which the parts I got were clever, my French isn't good enough to catch all the play on words. I had a little trouble finding good quality images of her sculptures, most of them were poorly photographed, but there are some images in the tribe's photos.

Enjoy!

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Dorothea Tanning

dianalynnlaw — Sun, 15 Feb 2004 17:10:26 GMT

Dorothea Tanning was born in the USA. She moved to New York, where she became involved with the Surrealist painters. She became the fourth and final wife of Max Ernst, thereafter spending much of her life in France. She is a prolific painter and soft sculpture artist, who is still alive and painting, with an extensive body of work that explores female sexuality/ sensuality as a theme. She also does writing, and poetry.

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Surrealism Tribe

freels — Fri, 29 Oct 2004 05:10:40 GMT

I started a general surrealism tribe at surr.tribe.net

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Oh Wow!

NovemberMoon — Wed, 20 Oct 2004 00:22:10 GMT

How could I have JUST found this tribe???? I not only ADORE surrelism in all formats but I am soo happy to see that you have represented some of my favorite female surrealists here especially and including Remedios Varo and Dorothea Tanning, my two all time favorite artists;] Thanks!

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Penelope Rosemont

borddakter — Sat, 16 Oct 2004 02:49:43 GMT

must be one of the most overlooked artists in the USA. Could be she is one of the great painter-poets of our time. But are the Rosemonts the true bearers of the Surrealist torch in the US?

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Surrealist-Movement-in-the-United-States

Does anyone know what's happening with the Chicago Group's web site? it's all about diet pills now!

http://www.surrealism-usa.org/

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poets needed

Robert — Wed, 01 Sep 2004 17:55:57 GMT

check it out:

http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/PoetryisawayofLife/

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Favorite Painting

Sat, 28 Feb 2004 20:17:25 GMT

Does anyone have a favorite surrealist painting? Mine is
"Breaking the Vicious Circle" by Remedios Varo. A heroine with eyes as if in a trance summons all her strength to pull apart the rope that binds her. She is electrified with energy and a green forest is revealed in her chest.

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favorite artists

dianalynnlaw — Tue, 24 Feb 2004 19:24:18 GMT

who are your favorite Surrealist women artists and why?

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Eileen Agar

dianalynnlaw — Sun, 14 Mar 2004 18:51:47 GMT

Eileen Agar was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina of father/ Scottish and mother/ American/ English. The family moved to London when she was an adolescent, where she studied art. In the 30's she encountered the Surrealists and joined the London Group. Seh was a painter/ collagist/ object maker (soft scultpture) here's a good link about her........
http://www.redfern-gallery.co.uk/pages/artistinfo/121.html

I've posted some photos and images in the tribe's images.

Feel free to add any comments......... love her work...hate her work?

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figure model available (LA)

Fri, 06 Feb 2004 16:57:05 GMT

hi,
i'm looking for female artists in socal who are interested in exploring more organic and odd forms, through figure studies and/or creative projects. painting, illustration, photography, sculpture, etc...

thank you,

Lorelai

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images

dianalynnlaw — Wed, 21 Jan 2004 01:49:53 GMT

Hey, Poul and An-Magrith,

Thanks for adding images of your paintings to the tribe, I want to feature member's work as well as the more historical images. And Poul, even though I know you are not a woman and not necessarily a Surrealist, I think your work fits in nicely, depicting states of the soul is a Surreal goal, it transcends literal reality. ;)

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Surrealism at the Blue Door tonight!

an-magi — Fri, 16 Jan 2004 09:49:34 GMT

Okay, okay so Donald Jones is a man but I hear most Surrealist women find him "Delightful" so lets go admire him and his work at the Blue Door tonight opening reception 7-9pm

info:
The Blue Door
759 N. 80th St.
Seattle, WA 98103
206 783-BLUE

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Leonor Fini

dianalynnlaw — Wed, 14 Jan 2004 17:54:30 GMT

Leonor Fini was of Argentinian and Italian descent, having spent her childhood in Trieste, Italy. She move to Paris in the 30's. She was never an official member of the Surrealist group, but was friends with Paul Eluard, Max Ernst, Jean Cocteau, etc., etc., really part of the same group. About her work she said, "I paint pictures which do not exist, and I would like to see", from Le Livre de Leonor Fini.

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Leonor Fini, Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco

an-magi — Wed, 14 Jan 2004 04:18:31 GMT

I was lucky enough to be in San Francisco for New Years and stumble into the Weinstein gallery never to imagine I would come face to face with the work of the brilliant Surrealist Leonor Fini!!!
Check out info. via Weinstein at:
www.weinstein.com/fini/chadwickessay.html
She has several small paintings including a self-portrait (though you may consider most of her work self-portrait) and a large painting I have never seen before, quite spooky just the way we like it, it too could be considered a self-portrait!
Want to see what the real Leonor looks like? I have downloaded a picture for the gallery of her sitting at her easel -
A mysterious beauty, just like her work..
P.S. I've never tried painting in a taffetta gown before and full makeup but maybe if it'll help my art along???...

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welcome

dianalynnlaw — Tue, 13 Jan 2004 22:56:52 GMT

Ok, Frida didn't consider herself an official member of the Surrealists, she thought some of them to be pretentious, but it was the only image I happened to have ready to load. ;)
If anyone has images from Remedios Varo, Leonor Fini, Leonora Carrington, or others or their own images feel free to add. Hey come to think of it I have my own images to put in..... I think images are a good place to start,......

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