Tanks for the memories...

[Dave Monroe]

The Surrealism/Communism encounter was an interesting
one, all right.  Uneasy for all concerned, with much
wackiness.  See ...

Lewis, Helena.  The Politics of Surrealism.
   New York: Paragon House, 1988.

This might have been published as Dada Goes Red: The
Politics of Surrealism by Edinburgh UP in the U.K.,
but I'm not sure if they're the same book or not.  And
I'm not familiar with this one yet, but it's on my
list, so ...

Rose, Alan.  Surrealism and Communism:
   The Early Years.  NY: Peter Lang, 1991.

By the way, here's a link that might be of interest
...

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

I got some nifty bumper stickers from 'em at a book
fair, at any rate ...

I've been steadily accumulating bits and pieces of
futurism, not up to bibliographizing much right now,
but I'd definitely recommend that Andrew Hewitt book
I've been excerpting (Fascist Modernism), and, having
had call to e-mail Marjorie Perloff a while back, she
mentioned that her classic The Futurist Moment might
find its way back into print soon.  Maurizia
Boscagli's Eye on the Flesh: Fashions of Modernity in
teh Early Twentieth century comes to mind as well ...

But, as Otto asked about Vorticism, is anybody here up
on it?  I've been, er, circling around it, but ...

http://www.english.uga.edu/~hypertxt/blast.html

Was wondering if there might be a Wynsham Lewis
allusion to be found in Ch. 9, along with the Pound
and the Yeats and so forth.  Also, Gottfried Benn. 
Have a BLAST! ...

--- Mark David Tristan Brenchley
<mdtb at st-andrews.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> P.S. Re: Walter  Benjamin and the aestheticisation
> of politics. What does
> our Mr Pynchon think of the Futurists? Also, there
> is a possible
> comparison between the Futurists (yea, fascism"!and
> The Surrealists (yea,
> communism!), both have strong aesthetics but given
> the Surrealists
> strongly anit-aesthetic approach to art (through
> their links to Dadaism)
> it is perhaps not surprising that they sided with
> the Communists. I'm not
> quite sure that this idea holds up, but I'd be
> interested in hearing your
> thoughts.
> 


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