Balls eye.
I've ordered the 'Automatic Message' book, have plenty ideas of my own and no longer see that harm of quoting other people (as in 'giving them credit rather than pretending that you thought of it yourself'). For now.
Why oh why must things take on a nice structure? Stories and sequences and orders...they make sense and obviously I understand their value but what if you don't like it? Does you opinion have to hang? I know that I am making this conflict but people will do anything to escape boredom and futility, even get jobs or make art or watch Desperate Housewives. Why should 'we artists' ever have to justify our pathetic method of income in a nation that loves Eastenders? I will write an essay for myself too and keep it all happily imbalanced.
The start of my quest for a finished essay is the word 'Automatism'. For a reminder of this point of origin, here is Wikipedia's (current) entry:
Surrealist automatism
Automatism is a surrealist technique involving spontaneous writing, drawing, or the like practiced without conscious aesthetic or moral self-censorship. Automatism in Surrealism has taken on many forms, from the automatic writing and drawing initially practiced by surrealists, to similar, or perhaps parallel phenomena, such as the non-idiomatic improvisation of free jazz.
Surrealist automatism is different from mediumistic automatism, from which the term was inspired. Ghosts, spirits or the like are not purported to be the source of surrealist automatic messages.
"Pure psychic automatism" was how André Breton, surrealism's founder, defined surrealism, and while the definition has proved capable of significant expansion, automatism remains of prime importance in the movement.
In 1919 Breton and Philippe Soupault wrote the first automatic book, Les Champs Magnétiques while The Automatic Message was one of Breton's significant theoretical works about automatism.
In the 1940s and 1950s the Canadian group called Les Automatistes pursued creative work (chiefly painting) based on surrealist principles. These artists, led by Paul-Emile Borduas, sought to proclaim an entity of universal values and ethics proclaimed in their manifesto "Refus Global".
Some surrealists write automatic mathematics or equations.
Why oh why must things take on a nice structure? Stories and sequences and orders...they make sense and obviously I understand their value but what if you don't like it? Does you opinion have to hang? I know that I am making this conflict but people will do anything to escape boredom and futility, even get jobs or make art or watch Desperate Housewives. Why should 'we artists' ever have to justify our pathetic method of income in a nation that loves Eastenders? I will write an essay for myself too and keep it all happily imbalanced.
The start of my quest for a finished essay is the word 'Automatism'. For a reminder of this point of origin, here is Wikipedia's (current) entry:
Surrealist automatism
Automatism is a surrealist technique involving spontaneous writing, drawing, or the like practiced without conscious aesthetic or moral self-censorship. Automatism in Surrealism has taken on many forms, from the automatic writing and drawing initially practiced by surrealists, to similar, or perhaps parallel phenomena, such as the non-idiomatic improvisation of free jazz.
Surrealist automatism is different from mediumistic automatism, from which the term was inspired. Ghosts, spirits or the like are not purported to be the source of surrealist automatic messages.
"Pure psychic automatism" was how André Breton, surrealism's founder, defined surrealism, and while the definition has proved capable of significant expansion, automatism remains of prime importance in the movement.
In 1919 Breton and Philippe Soupault wrote the first automatic book, Les Champs Magnétiques while The Automatic Message was one of Breton's significant theoretical works about automatism.
In the 1940s and 1950s the Canadian group called Les Automatistes pursued creative work (chiefly painting) based on surrealist principles. These artists, led by Paul-Emile Borduas, sought to proclaim an entity of universal values and ethics proclaimed in their manifesto "Refus Global".
Some surrealists write automatic mathematics or equations.
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