Aloha,
On 2/2/2006 at 11:26 AM grant b, sun reporter wrote:
> A lot of the techniques used by the early surrealists consisted of things
>drawn from some of the weird not-quite overlapping spheres of 19th century
>occultism and (pre-)psychology --
Some surrealists developed additional techniques of art or literary
execution,
as well.
Somewhere the surrealist movement began to feedback into occulture, and
the techniques took on a different sort of refinement, less paranormal and
more *studio of the mind.*
>...I think it's possible to draw a line from the Discordians (early 70s/
>late 60s) back through the Situationists to the Surrealists, basically
>following the same track as Greil Marcus' _Lipstick Traces_.
I think that there is a surrealist influence and flavor to Discordianism
and other occulture movements from the 60s on. I've been puzzling
over surrealist and similar influences on the early Neo-Pagan Craft
revival (WWII to the 50s).
The prominent early Craft revivalists in England and the U.S. do not
seem to have been particularly susceptible to surrealist influences,
at least in the sense of the art and literary movement. Other, later
Craft revivalists seem to have been more susceptible.
Even though I don't think that it's programmatically surrealist in its
origins, the establishment of The Church of Satan in San Francisco
during the 60s probably re-blended some surrealist techniques and
outlooks into occulture. I've come to consider the Satanic Masses as
an early expression of performance art.
Musing Taking My Andalusian Dog For A Walk! Rose,
Pitch
<<I want to create wilderness out of empire.>>
--Gary Snyder
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