Cartas da Abissínia (seguido de Philippe Soupalt - Mar Vermelho)

About Philippe Soupault:

Philippe Soupault (2 August 1897, Chaville, Hauts-de-Seine – 12 March 1990, Paris) was a French writer and poet, novelist, critic, and political activist. He was active in Dadaism and later founded the Surrealist movement with André Breton. Soupault initiated the periodical Littérature together with the writers Breton and Louis Aragon in Paris in 1919, which, for many, marks the beginnings of Surrealism.^[1] The first book of automatic writing, Les champs magnétiques (1920), was co-authored by Soupault and Breton. He directed Radio Tunis from 1937 to 1940, when he was arrested by the pro-Vichy regime. He fled successfully to Algiers.
After imprisonment by the Nazis during World War II, Soupault traveled to the United States, teaching at Swarthmore College but returned subsequently to France in October 1945. His works include such large volumes of poetry as Aquarium (1917) and Rose des vents [compass card] (1920) and the novel Les Dernières Nuits de Paris (1928; tr. Last Nights of Paris, 1929).
In 1957 he wrote the libretto for Germaine Tailleferre's Opera La Petite Sirène, based on Hans Christian Andersen's tale "The Little Mermaid". The work was broadcast by French Radio National in 1959.
In 1990 the year Soupault died, Serbian rock band Bjesovi recorded their version of his poem Georgia in Serbian.
Soupault's short story "Death of Nick Carter" was translated by Robin Walz in 2007, and published in issue 24 of the McSweeney's Quarterly.

Extract Taken From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Soupault

More Info I: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Soupault - http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Soupault

More Info II: http://centrodeartes.blogs.com/photos/etccapas/151cartas_da_abissnia.html - http://www.wook.pt/ficha/cartas-da-abissinia/a/id/95936 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aden - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_of_Arthur_Rimbaud

The old town of Aden, situated in the crater of an extinct volcano (1999)

O Mito Trágico do Angelus de Millet

About Dali, Millet & Angelus:


Influences in the Life of Salvador Dali

The Angelus of Millet

This was a painting that hung outside a classroom in one of Dali's schools, that he was later to remember and include in many of his works, such as The Architectonic Angelus of Millet and The Angelus of Gala. It depicts a man and a woman praying over a harvest, and is seen my many as a symbolic religious piece. However, Dali read many sinister meanings into it. He saw the woman as being aggressive, and described the picture as being about sexual repression rather then humble worship.
He also claimed that if the picture were to be x-rayed it would reveal that the figures were originally praying over the coffin of a child. This was always seen as another manifestation of Dali's bizarre fantasies, but an x-ray did actually reveal a geometric shape, which had been painted over, and resembled a small coffin. Dali's interpretation had been correct.

Source: http://h2g2.com/dna/h2g2/A585344

The painting was commissioned by Thomas Gold Appleton, an American art collector who was based in Boston, Massachusetts, and who had previously studied with Barbizon painter, Constant Troyon, a friend of Millet's. It was completed during the summer of 1857. Millet added a steeple and changed the initial title of the work, Prayer for the Potato Crop to The Angelus when the purchaser failed to take possession in 1859. Displayed to the public for the first time in 1865, the painting changed hands several times, increasing only modestly in value, since some considered the artist's political sympathies suspect. Upon Millet's death a decade later, a bidding war between the US and France ensued, ending some years later with a price tag of 800,000 gold francs.
The disparity between the apparent value of the painting and the poor estate of Millet's surviving family was a major impetus in the invention of the droit de suite, intended to compensate artists or their heirs when works are resold.^[9]

Info & Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Millet#The_Angelus

More Info Related:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoiac-critical_method
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Dal%C3%AD
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Millet