v/a GROUPE SURREALISTE REVOLUTIONNAIRE - DOTREMONT - BROODTHAERS 1939-1978
Avant-garde in Belgium 1917-1978 / volume 3
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SR269
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This is the ultimate collection of archives of all the avant-garde in Belgium from Magritte to Broodthaers, from James Ensor to Christian Dotremont. 220 minutes of rare documents published in three parts / 3 volumes / 3 cds (SR225, SR242, SR269).
Edited by Guy Marc Hinant.
This third volume talks about:
the Groupe surréaliste du Hainaut, 1939
(with Achille Chavée, Fernand Dumont, Pol Bury, André Simon, Marcel Lefrancq...),
the Groupe surréaliste révolutionnaire, 1948
(with Christian Dodremont, Marcel Broodthaers, Paul Colinet, Achille Chavée...),
the Revues : Temps mêlés, 1952 (with André Blavier), Phantomas 1953
(with Marcel Havrenne, Joseph Noiret, Théodore Koenig, Gabriel et Marcel Piqueray),
Les lèvres nues, 1954 (with Marcel Mariën),
Daily Bul 1957 (with André Balthazar, Pol Bury, Marcel Havrenne, Paul Colinet, Gabriel and Marcel Piqueray)
and the two outsiders: Marcel Broodthaers and Jean-Pierre Verheggen.
Hennuyerian Extensions...
From this vantage point (Hainaut), Surrealism was a slow blinding light. Seen from the industrial landscapes, so close to the French borders, it has a different colour than what can be seen in the capital. These Surrealists remained rather faithful to the methods preached by Breton (automatic writing, against which Nougé became strongly opposed early on). Hennuyer, Magritte, Scutenaire, and Souris were too, but they quickly moved to Brussels, where things began to crystallize. In 1936, Achille Chavée joined the International Brigades (Drombrowski Section) to defend the Spanish Republic. In Paris, he bid farewell to Breton and Aragon, who "fraternally supported him" - though Chavée was the only one to leave.
