LC
participated in the Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme, which opened on this day at the Galerie Beaux-Arts in Paris. The show was curated by Marcel Duchamp
and included pieces by Salvador Dali
,...
Occupation
Mina Loy
The Society of Independent Artists
included many members of the Arensberg
circle, especially Duchamp
. The Society countered tradition in many ways in their plans for the exhibition. Their slogan was No jury, no prizes...
Publishing
Leonora Carrington
The collection includes an introduction by Marina Warner
, who worked with LC
and Paul De Angelis
on the integrity of the texts, which were first written between the late 1930s and early 1940s. Warner,...
Residence
Mina Loy
There she gained entrance to the circle of expatriate and avant-garde writers and artists who gathered at the apartment of Walter Arensberg
. Chief among these was Marcel Duchamp
.
Burke, Carolyn. Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy. Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1996.
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Textual Production
Leonora Carrington
LC
contributed The Skeleton's Holiday to L'Homme qui a perdu son squelette (The Man Who Lost His Skeleton), a collaborative novel she wrote with several other artists affiliated with surrealism, including Hans Arp
Timeline
15 June 1916: A small international group of artists at...
Building item
15 June 1916
A small international group of artists at Zurich in Switzerland (where many of them were sitting out the First World War) began this summer to call their indignant, iconoclastic work Dada or Dadaism. On this...