Surrealist Prague (this little mother has claws)
Surrealist Prague (this little mother has claws)
Author(s): Derek SayerSubject(s): Cultural history, Local History / Microhistory, Social history, Recent History (1900 till today), Social development, Rural and urban sociology, Sociology of Culture
Published by: SAGE Publications Ltd
Keywords: Prague; Czech Republic; surrealist Prague; city’s modern history; 20th century; Prague’s avant-garde scene; cultural history;
Summary/Abstract: Together with his second wife Jacqueline Lamba (who inspired Mad Love, one of Breton’s greatest prose works, written between 1934 and 1936) and his fellow-poet Paul Éluard, the founder of surrealism had just returned from two weeks in the Bohemian capital in March-April 1935. The surrealists stayed at the art nouveau Hotel Paris (Hotel Paříž), just behind the Municipal House in the Old Town. On 27 March Breton lectured on “The Surrealist Situation of the Object” to over 700 people at the new Mánes Artists’ Society galleries, where the Czechoslovak Surrealist Group’s first exhibition had ended just two weeks earlier.
- Issue Year: 26/2018
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 85-96
- Page Count: 12
- Language: English
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