Editing Post-surrealism

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'''Post-surrealism''' is a movement that arose in [[Southern California]] in 1934 when [[Helen Lundeberg]] and [[Lorser Feitelson]] wrote a manifesto explaining their desire to use art to convey the relationship between the perceptual and the conceptual.<ref>{{Cite web
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Sometimes this term is used to refer to [[art movements|art movement]] related to or influenced by [[surrealism]], which occurred after a so-called period of "historical surrealism".  According to an article on the website ''acearchive.org'', some surrealists have claimed that the term is unnecessary, because surrealism continues to the present day.<ref>https://acearchive.org/post-surrealism {{Dead link | date=April 2025 | fix-attempted=yes}}</ref>
Modern-day surrealist activity is sometimes called "post surrealism" by advocates of the idea that surrealism is "dead".

==History==
Both Lundeberg and Feitelson participated in a showing of art for the [[Los Angeles Art Association]] on [[Wilshire Boulevard]] in 1954. Along with Stephen Longstreet and [[Elise Cavanna]], the artists whose paintings were presented were known collectively as ''Functionists West''. Feitelson and Cavanna showed only non-objective works. Both artists employed flat-colored and near geometrical shapes.

Post-Surrealism was an American spin on the European-born art movement of the 20th Century. Beginning in the 1930s, artists searched for a style that would differentiate themselves from the dreamlike surrealism of Europe and more sub-conscious, earlier movements of Romanticism and Modernism. This new form of ''"Americana Dream"'' art began in Los Angeles, California. The cities' fanciful, other-worldly architecture and extravagant city-scape provided ample inspiration for burgeoning artists. Other cities such as San Francisco, New York, and Dallas became hotbeds for these creators.

While exhibiting in California in 1934, [[Lorser Feitelson]] and [[Helen Lundeberg|Helen Lundberg]] displayed their work under the name post-surrealism. For the first time, artists were able to separate themselves through their own name, and even formed a Surrealism group which boasted such great artists as [[Philip Guston]], [[Reuben Kadish]], [[Knud Merrild]], and [[Grace Clements (artist)|Grace Clements]].

As a social movement as well as art, the works being created at this time reflected the prevalent issues throughout the country. Undoubtedly, the war was a major factor in the surrealism movement. Although the works which focused on these events were surrealist, they are now classified as Social-surrealism. Dalí influenced many social surrealists, including [[O. Louis Guglielmi]], [[James Guy (artist)|James Guy]], [[Walter Quirt]] and [[David Smith (sculptor)|David Smith]], whose techniques can be seen in all of the aforementioned artists' works.

==References==
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'''Bibliography'''
* Balakian, Anna. ''[https://www.jstor.org/stable/2928886 The Post-Surrealism of Aragon and Eluard]''. Yale French Studies, No. 2, Modern Poets: Surrealists, Baudelaire, Perse, Laforgue (1948), Yale University Press, pp.&nbsp;93–102
* [[Los Angeles Times]], ''Functionists Work Hailed As Brilliant'', January 17, 1954, Page E7.

== External links ==
*Duncan, Michael, "[http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/artmuseum_cat/7 Post Surrealism]" (2002). Exhibit Catalogues. Book 7.

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