Hello Nat
I saw your earlier questions about Carrington etc., and so have looked
for other surrealists connected with the original movement.
Jean-Michel Goutier was close to André Breton and became his widow
Elisa's secretary. He is a friend and helper both to Elisa and to
Aube, Breton's daughter from a previous marriage. Although Goutier's
work has been more as biographer and critic, he is described as a
surrealist, for instance here:
"Jean-Michel Goutier, ancien surréaliste proche de Breton puis de sa
fille, Aube."
http://www.remue.net/litt/breton_08Express.html
Possible ways of contacting him:
He contributed to a recent book on Magritte:
http://www.geometry.net/artists_bk/magritte_rene.html
This was published by Ludion, part of the Flammarion publishing house:
26 Rue Racine 75006 Paris
Tel: 0140513100
Fax: 0143292148
http://www.editeur.info/flammarion.php
He wrote the introduction to the catalogue of this recent auction:
http://breton.calmelscohen.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=catalogues.text&text_index=23
He might also be contactable through the Princeton University Press,
who published another catalogue involving Goutier:
http://pup.princeton.edu/titles/7117.html
Background on the Bretons and Goutier (misspelt in this article, I'm
afraid):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,934716,00.html
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"Maurice Nadeau, for some time after the Second World War an active
member of the surrealist movement alongside André Breton and at
present director of the literary magazine La Quinzaine littéraire"
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/jan2003/bret-j11_prn.shtml
His publishing address:
Maurice Nadeau
Contact : Maurice Nadeau
Adresse:135, rue Saint-Martin 75194 Paris Cedex 04
Telephone :00 33 1 48 87 75 87
Telecopie :00 33 1 48 87 13 01
http://www.frenchbooknews.org.uk/affichage_editeur.php?deb=51&pas=10
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Pablo Weisz-Carrington is a younger surrealist painter whose
connection to the original surrealists comes through his mother,
Leonora Carrington. He gives an email address on several webpages -
here, for instance:
http://home.freeuk.com/composer/pablo.html
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Arrabal is a Spanish playwright, poet and essayist who moved to France
in 1955.
Biography
http://www.arrabal.org/cure.html
More biographical information
http://www.avignon-lefunambule.net/2003/archives/Fernando_Arrabal_biographie/fernandoarrabal_biographie.html
"Writer Fernando Arrabal, who attended debates in [Breton's] flat"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,11882,925786,00.html
Email contact here:
http://www.arrabal.org/
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Jan Svankmaer is a Czech surrealist filmmaker who was described as
still active earlier this year.
"encore en activité"
http://www.lapropagationduchaos.net/cinema_svankmajer.htm
"Jan Svankmajer does not have an e-mail address, and his views on
computers make it highly unlikely that he'll ever get one - but
messages can be passed on via the Czech Surrealist Group at
[nospam:surreal@terminal.cz]. Bear in mind that Svankmajer does not
speak or read English, which means that unless you write in Czech your
message will have to be translated - so it should be kept as brief as
possible. Letters should be sent to the Gambra gallery - see below."
http://www.illumin.co.uk/svank/contacts.html
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Further Information
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"d'anciens surréalistes regroupés dans l'association Actual, présidée
par l'écrivain Jean Schuster"
(I believe this association is no longer active and Schuster died in
1995.)
http://livres.lexpress.fr/dossiers.asp/idC=6226/idR=4/idG
Even if you are only interested in what the French call the "anciens
surréalistes", you may find some useful links here:
http://ed.surrealistes.free.fr/Amics/amics.html
Another surrealist links site:
http://www.torchart.com/links.cfm
Please let me know if anything here needs clarification, or if I have
misunderstood your question in some way, so I can do my best to help.
It was an interesting question to work on, and I hope the answer will
be useful for your research.
Best Wishes - Leli
It was helpful to have the recent press coverage of the Breton sale to
give me some leads. Apart from that I searched with terms like:
living surrealist
ancien surréaliste
anciens surréalistes
surréaliste "toujours vivant"
surréalistes "toujours vivants"
There were references from 2003 to all the names I've given you, but I
also checked on their wellbeing by running searches on their names
combined with 'died' 'mort' etc. |
