[lbo-talk] Surrealists and politics and homosexuality

[James Heartfield]

Yes, it is daft to take issue with Dali's political statements, which were surrealist provocations, not really political statements at all. Like Sid Vicious wearing a Swastika, or Big Tom of Finland drawing hunky Nazis.

I think there is some evidence that in later life he was a bit uncomfortabele about what might have been a homosexual relationship with Lorca.

There is also the case of Bataille of The Accursed Share, who also flirted with Fascist imagery - much pilloried for that, but probably just trying to add a frisson of danger to his secret blood-drinking cult.