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A Few Images & Resources
We gathered a few Gascoyne related links and images to supplement José-Luis Moctezuma’s essay, David Gascoyne’s Surrealist Mode: “Negotiations with the Infinite”, which appears in this issue. Some relate directly to the essay – the full text of Holderlin’s Madness, for example, is now online at Archive.org. We’ve linked to Gascoyne’s British Library Audio Files where he recounts his time with the Surrealists, and we’ve included images associated with the London Surrealist Exhibition of 1936, such as Sheila Legge’s and Salvador Dali’s iconic Surrealist Bulletin photo documenting Legge’s art performance in Trafalgar Square. A photo of Dali in his diving suit at the 1936 Exhibition also appears below, along with a few images of a few Surrealist book covers of works translated by Gascoyne, Humphrey Jennings, and even Samuel Beckett, among others. Internet resources on Surrealism are many, and we’re happy to see the additional studies and images of the work of the ever-present Women of Surrealism such as Eileen Agar and Claude Cahun, but we hope that gathering these few items here might supply a quick look around at some of the sources that are more specifically connected to the poet David Gascoyne. |
 From National Galleries of Scotland:This collaged memory book, compiled during the Second World War, looks back over a period of intense involvement that Gascoyne had with Surrealism. The scrapbook is one of a series produced by Gascoyne during the 1940s, using material he had gathered whilst preparing his publication, ‘A Short Survey of Surrealism’ in 1935. It is a compendium of photographs, catalogues, prospectuses, published and manuscript texts, press cuttings, and so forth, together with several original collages and painted ornaments by Gascoyne himself, all ordered thematically. |
 Above: David Gascoyne – Notebook, p. 78 – 79Projection of Rubbish, Anima, Animus drawing Yale University – Beinecke Digital Collections |
 Above: Poemes de la Folie de Hölderlin by Jouve |
Hölderlin’s Madness by David Gascoyne is online at archive.org
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Below: a segment on Hölderlin’s Madness from
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Conquest of the Irrational by Salvador Dali (1935). Julian Levy Publisher
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David Gascoyne Poems 1937-1942
Editions Poetry London, 1943 |
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David Emery Gascoyne, 1942 |
David Gascoyne, Perseus and Andromeda 1936
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A Short Survey of Surrealism David Gascoyne |
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What is Surrealism? Criterion Miscellany-No.43. |
 Remove Your Hat Benjamin Peret translated by |
 Thorns of Thunder Paul Eluard, Thorns of Thunder. |
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The Magnetic Fields by André Breton and Philippe Soupault, published in an edition of 300 copies by Atlas Press, London, 1985. This is the first English translation (by David Gascoyne) of the “automatic writing” in Les Champs magnétiques (1919), the first Surrealist book. |
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Poster by Max Ernst for the |
 Surrealism, Herbert Read, editorFaber and Faber, 1936 Cover Design: Roland Penrose |
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National Life Story Collection: Artists’ Lives Gascoyne, David. (Part 4 of 11) David Gascoyne recounts his life story for the British Library in eleven audio recordings which they’ve posted online. Part Four contains much on Gascoyne’s connections to the Surrealists. Part 4 of 11 Abstract: 1935 visit to Paris. Meeting with Paul Eluard. Meeting André Breton, intimidating. Surrealist daily meetings at Café de la Place Blanche, six o’clock. Details of who came. David Gascoyne (DG) employed by Dali to translate, ‘Conquest of the Irrational’ an essay for New York catalogue. Worked at Dali’s apartment, description. Use of lens attached to his eye when painting for magnification and fine brush of onlyhree hairs. Dali. Surrealist plans for lectures and events. Dali wanted an old lady on stage with pink tape up her arms from her fingers, an omelette and a spirit lamp. Dali had been shy, Gala helped him develop persona for American public. DG reviewed biography of Gala, ‘Wicked Lady’ in TLS. Eluard visited with daughter, Cecilie who was shy and wanted to be loved by her mother Gala. Eluard read his poems, including love poem dedicated to Gala. Eluard remarried by this time. Had met Man Ray, saw photographs of Nusch, Réné Crevel suicide. 1935 congress of Intellectuals for the Defence of Culture against Fascism. Surrealists still close to Communist party. Crevel ambivalent. Crevel funeral. Details of who attended the congress and of Breton attacking Ehrenbourg, the Soviet delegate who had accused Surrealists of being pederasts. Breton had a horror of homosexuality, Crevel was the only homosexual within circle. DG collected rare documentation about Surrealist events. Tristan Tzara. Beckett and DG translate Eluard’s ‘Thorns of Thunder’ 1936. Conversations with Breton. DG translation mistake in Breton text. |
International Surrealist Exhibition
New Burlington Galleries, London June 1936
Image above from www.nationalgalleries.org
Salvador Dali in his Diving Suit
International Surrealist Exhibition
London, 1936
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Sheila Legge in performance in Trafalgar Square
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from: Manchester Confidential September 22, 2009 Albert Square and the Surrealist Phantom: In 1936, Salvador DalÍ collaborated with fellow surrealist Sheila Legge to stage a surrealist happening in Trafalgar Square. Legge appeared as The Phantom of Sex Appeal dressed in a long white satin dress, her face completely obscured by paper roses and ladybirds. Photographs of this event showing pigeons perching on the Phantom’s arms have become an iconic surrealist image. Following Legge’s appearance as the Surrealist Phantom in Trafalgar Square, she wandered the exhibition, carrying a pork chop in one hand, and an artificial leg in the other, but the pork chop had to be abandoned on account of the heat.
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Exhibition London, 1936 Click here for the full .pdf file of this catalogue |
List of Contributors to the Exhibition
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