Al-Tatawwur (Evolution) - #Dada/#Surrealism
An Enhanced Timeline of Egyptian Surrealism
▻http://ir.uiowa.edu/dadasur/vol19/iss1/4
1937: Henein publicly introduces surrealism in Egypt at a conference in Cairo and founds the Art and Freedom Group with artists Ramses Younan, Kamel el-Telmissany, and Angelo de Riz, journalist Emile Simon, and poet Edmond Jabés (Alexandrian 22). The group coalesces around a shared artistic ideology, and begins producing art and writing along the same lines. Henein, a Trotskyist, chooses the name “Art and Freedom” after the manifesto, “Pour un Art révolutionnaire indépendant,” written by Breton with Trotsky in Mexico and signed by Diego Rivera and Breton (Alexandrian 22).
