[lbo-talk] Surrealists and homosexuality

[wrobert at uci.edu]

The only surrealist that comes close to fascism is Salvador Dali, and that
seemed to be primarily an act of opportunism and cynicism.  (Breton
referred to him as Avada Dollars.) For the most part, the surrealists were
strongly linked to the left, connected loosely to the communist movement
and anti-colonialism (which they probably had a stronger commitment to
than the official parties. Breton wrote the intro to Cesaire's Discourse
on Colonialism, for instance, and Leiris wrote the first major critique of
european anthropology)  robert wood
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> Dennis Claxton wrote:
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>> I just found this and it's thrown me for a
>> loop.  There's doesn't seem to be room for interpretation here:
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> I would link this with the _generally_ rightist tendency in so much of
> modernism -- consider the number of the great modernists who were
> overtly sympathetic to fascism.
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> Carrol
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