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October is still Spook Month as usual but this year it’s also the 100th anniversary of the publication of Andr\u00e9 Breton’s first Surrealist Manifesto, something I wrote about back in January. Many events have been acknowledging the anniversary including Minotaur Ballet \u2013 Swansea Surreal<\/em>, an exhibition curated by David Greenslade and Incunabula Media which will be running at Volcano Theatre<\/a>, Swansea from now to the end of the month. I’m one of the contributors with prints of my Alice in Wonderland posters. Lewis Carroll’s books were rare examples of British culture that Breton was enthusiastic about\u2014he made Alice the “Siren of Dreams” in the Surrealist card deck<\/a>\u2014while Salvador Dal\u00ed and Max Ernst both created illustrations for the stories. I would have preferred to have made something new for the event but other work intervened.<\/p>\n The exhibition…will feature mainly Welsh artists, most of them from Swansea, alongside guests from Australia, Ukraine, Romania, Czech Republic, Egypt, Ireland and other parts of the UK.<\/p>\n ARTISTS INCLUDE FILMS OLD AND NEW BY And a special screening of Blue Scar<\/em> (1949)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Elsewhere on { feuilleton } Previously on { feuilleton } October is still Spook Month as usual but this year it’s also the 100th anniversary of the publication of Andr\u00e9 Breton’s first Surrealist Manifesto, something I wrote about back in January. Many events have been acknowledging the anniversary including Minotaur Ballet \u2013 Swansea Surreal, an exhibition curated by David Greenslade and Incunabula Media which will … Continue reading “Minotaur Ballet \u2013 Swansea Surreal”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,18,23],"tags":[350,13673,12331,114,112,87],"class_list":["post-27423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-surrealism","category-work","tag-andre-breton","tag-david-greenslade","tag-incunabula-media","tag-lewis-carroll","tag-max-ernst","tag-salvador-dali"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-78j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nGeorge Ostafi, Mark Sanders, Alexandria Bryan, Neil Coombs, John Goodby, Ricardo Acevedo, Carla-Francesca Schoppel, Dagmar Stepankova, David Rees Davies, Matt Leyshon, Jennifer Allan, Ben Faircloth, Wynford Vaughan Thomas, James Green, David K Mitchell, John Coulthart, Ian Walker, Premysl Martinec, Roger Moss, Julia Lockheart, David Greenslade, Simon Evans, Syd Howells, Keith Bayliss, Anatoly Shmatok, Maria Dolorosa de la Cruz<\/p>\n
\nKenji Siratori, Zac Ferguson, Jane Arden (Norah Morris), Ricardo Acevedo<\/p>\n![\"alice.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/alice.jpg\")
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\n\u2022 The Surrealism archive<\/a><\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Scenes from a carriage<\/a>
\n\u2022 Dal\u00ed in Wonderland<\/a>
\n\u2022 Surrealist cartomancy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"