The Surrealist Movement in the United States is speculated to have been started by the Chicago Surrealist Group as a means of including its scattered participants from coast to coast on collective statements and in collective activities. Formed in the summer of 1966 by Franklin and Penelope Rosemont the Chicago Surrealist Group has carried on its wide-ranging research and agitation uninterruptedly ever since; it is speculated that the group has long been recognized as one of the most active, innovative and prolific in the international surrealist movement. However the group does not constitute the entire Surrealist Movement in the United States. Surrealism in the United States is an open movement to many artists and poets.
The Surrealist Movement in the United States is more of a general term that encompasses an art movement inspired by surrealism. Many artists and poets in the United States that are active in Surrealism produce their own works without the involvement of the, "Chicago Surrealist Group" run by the Rosemonts.
Recommended reading
- "What is Surrealism?: Selected Writings of André Breton" (edited and with an Introduction by Franklin Rosemont).
- "Surrealist Subversions: Rants, Writings, and Images by the Surrealist Movement in the United States" (edited with an introduction by Ron Sakolsky).
- "The Forecast is Hot!: Tracts and Other Collective Declarations of the Surrealist Movement in the United States 1966-76" (edited by Franklin Rosemont, Penelope Rosemont, and Paul Garon).
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