Centre for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacies

Past Events Sponsored by the Centre

7 February - 4 may 2009, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

13 June - 6 September 2009, Compton Verney

29 September - 13 December 2009, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich

A challenging traveling exhibition curated by Anna Dezeuze and David Lomas, which drew on the Centre for the Study of Surrealism and Its Legacies' research to look at the relationships between surrealism and contemporary art.

4 December 2009

Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, UEA, Norwich

Organised by Kimberley Marwood and Majella Munro

This one day symposium explored how Surrealism, despite Breton's intolerance, attracted a formidable array of queer artists and writers, photographers, and filmmakers. These "other" Surrealists were crucial to Surrealism's reception outside of France. They also laid the groudwork for creative negotiations of the body, gender, and sexuality by more recent generations of artists.

To coincide with the exhibition Subversive Spaces: Surrealism and Contemporary Art, the 7th Annual PhD symposium of the Centre for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacies was held at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, UEA on December 4th 2009.

Sponsored by the Centre for the Study of Surrealism and Its Legacies.

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