In conjunction with the exhibition BUT LIVE HERE? NO THANKS: Surrealism and Anti-Fascism (15 October 2024 – 2 March 2025) at the Lenbachhaus, New York University is organising a conference on 14 and 15 November 2024.
2024 marks the centenary of the Surrealist movement – more specifically of its founding manifesto and attendant journal. The title of the latter, La Révolution surréaliste (1924-29) made plain the movement’s ambition: nothing less than a social and political revolution, a synthesis of unconscious desire and waking reality. Hamstrung by both communist resistance to its “interior model” and by the rise of fascism and …
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Image above: Max Ernst, L’ange du foyer (Der Hausengel) / (The Angel of Hearth and Home), 1937, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen – Sammlung Moderne Kunst in der Pinakothek der Moderne München, 2013 als Schenkung der Theo Wormland-Stiftung GmbH erworben / Modern Art Collection, Pinakothek der Moderne Munich, acquired in 2013 as a gift from the Theo Wormland-Stiftung GmbH © Max Ernst / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024