Mercatorfonds, 2006 Relie, avec couverte,Hardcover with dusjacket, 352pp,32,5 x 25,5 cm, 400 illustraties in color, ? The surrealist movement in Belgium is often associated with figures like René Magritte and Paul Delvaux. Yet surrealism was practised and preached by many other original artists who have received little recognition. Men like Paul Nougé, Marcel Mari?n or Tom Gutt, for instance, were the representatives of three generations of Belgian surrealism in its various incarnations.In Brussels, almost in parallel with André Bretons Parisian movement, a tentative yet subversive and highly political form of surrealism saw the light of day in 1924 under the leadership of Paul Nougé. Magritte and Nougé set out to conquer and reform the world, beginning with basics like the structure of language and the imagination.Another group formed ten years later in the Hainaut.

Foreword

PART Ⅰ:THE FUTURE OF STATUES

 Chapter 1: Vignettes of youth (1924-1950)

 OEsophage-Mariel

 Paul Nouge

 In Hainaut

 Exposition surrealiste-Mauvais temps

 War

 The post-war period

 Surrealism in the sunlight

 Revolutionary Surrealism

 Cobra

 Haute Nuit in Hainaut

 Back in Brussels

 Paul Delvaux

 Chapter 2: Bunking school (1950-1952)

 Vendredi

 Chapter 3: The song of the storm (1952-1954)

La Carte d'apres nature

Temps M616s

Histoire de ne pas rite

Chapter 4: The cape of storms (1954-1960)

Les Levres nues

Gilbert Senecaut

Paul Bourgoignie

  Les Levres nues and the Lettrists

  Toutes ces dames au salon!

  Quand I'acier fur rompu

  Lettre ouverte a Monsieur le Ministre

  de la Defense nationale

  Theorie de la Revolution mondiale immediate

Leo Dohmen

  L'lmitation du cinema

One step back: 'Enfants terribles'

  Phantomas

  Daily-Bul

Edda: another kind of Surrealism?

Sch6ma in Hainaut

PART Ⅱ: THE FLAME REKINDLED

Chapter 1: The black flag (1960-1964)

  Rhetorique

  Grande Baisse

  Apres Dieu

  Tom Gutt

  Vendonah

  Le Vent se leve

  Vous voyez avec votre nombril

  Theses sur rart sale

  Marcel Broodthaers

Chapter 2: The tomb of the wrestlers (1965-1975)

  5 Lettres

  Le Fair accompli - Les Levres nues (2nd series)

  Andre Stas

  Nadja Blanche

  The fake Magrittes

  E.L.T. Mesens

  Le Vocatif

  Autant en rapporte le vent: the Eemans affair

  Robert Willems

  Max Servais

  Armand Simon

  Rachel Baes

  Marcel Lefrancq

Chapter 3: A spontaneous generation (1976-1993)

  La Fidelite des images

  Le Radeau de la m6moire

  Cette Memoire du coeur

  Les Levres nues (3rd series)

  Conclusion: The endless chain (1993-2000)

Biographies

Bibliography

Index

Photo qraphic credits