Aloha,
My earlier comment about surrealism and the early Neo-Pagan Craft
revivalists was an attempt to put a suspicion into words. My suspicion
is that if these early revivalists been susceptible to influences from
surrealism--the art and literary movement--then what they were
reviving would looked different and turned out different.
I'm not really sure how, exactly.
But I suppose that it would touch on stances toward alienation,
industrialization, and the shaping of rituals.
And I'm not really sure how to tell influences of the surrealist
movement strictly speaking from influences related to surrealism
from the general popular culture. These influences from general
popular culture seem to me more likely.
One thing that does occur to me is that Gardner spent his early
life out in Southeast Asia and wouldn't have been involved in
Europe's art or literary scene.
Another is an impression that the other early revivalists don't
appear to have been all that involved in the art or literary
scenes, either. At least in the way of claiming surrealist affiliations.
Surrealism was influencing occulture on the whole.
And I have a sense of the surrealist movement influencing Neo-Pagan
Craft in later years.
Honestly, I'm playing with these notions, and I appreciate all the
comments in response.
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