Night in a Surrealist Forest

Very fitting for the month of October..



This is a 1941 newsreel about A Surrealist dinner party held at the Hotel Del Monte in Monterey, CA.
Hosted and designed by Salvador Dali.
It was a fund raiser to help displaced European artists during the war.

a concise intermission found

Dadaism and Surrealism had a direct impact on many of the Beats: Dadaism with its attack on the elitism of high culture and its celebration of spontaneity;

Surrealism with its transformation of the Dadaist rebellion into positive social intentions and its focus on revelations from the subconscious.

Both movements, in a sense, developed as a reaction to World War I, just as the Beat Generation was reacting to the environment of post-World War II America.