tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2445319837947149744.post3227835245934115574..comments2023-10-29T07:28:24.950-07:00Comments on Cabinet of Curiosities: Home of the SurrealistLady Lavonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05896512560744076775noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2445319837947149744.post-58300356931144798392008-11-14T21:06:00.000-08:002008-11-14T21:06:00.000-08:00What a fantastic blog! And your etsy store rocks! ...What a fantastic blog! And your etsy store rocks! (And has bought on a severe case of cash-consciousness... goi ng mad on the many beautiful things will have to wit until I'm making money again...). I've been researching wunderkammern for the last few years -- so was v. excited to see the remnents of breton's collection in Paris a few years ago... and lovely to be reminded of it. It, in part, inspired my own blog (Museum of Dust), which sadly has been rather abandoned in favour of something a little more... inclusive.<BR/><BR/>I'd mail you, but can't find an email address -- so please consider this a very warm welcome to join and be part of the foundation community of a new 'social museum' for makers and collectors of the marvelous. <BR/><BR/>Curiosity Cabinet is at http://curiositycabi.net -- at this stage it's just a tiny starting community that a friend and I are still building -- but we're eager for feedback and suggestions... and for wonderful things like yours...<BR/><BR/>cheers -- and hoping to see you there<BR/>ShiraleeAdministrationhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09761053227401865092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2445319837947149744.post-65139998103601224682008-11-14T06:36:00.000-08:002008-11-14T06:36:00.000-08:00Oh dearie...I too have had to sell many a treasure...Oh dearie...I too have had to sell many a treasure to help out with the finances. No fun at all! I had to sell two Jennybird Alcantara originals one time. Now, thankfully, I manage my money a wee bit better, and can hold on to my treasures...<BR/>Have a great weekend love!<BR/>xo.Uncommon Objects Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11885947597625660186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2445319837947149744.post-21330519812230974742008-11-13T18:12:00.000-08:002008-11-13T18:12:00.000-08:00lol! Definitly not a Marxist! I have a Virgo Moon ...lol! Definitly not a Marxist! I have a Virgo Moon which = OCD! So I must edit! <BR/><BR/>From what I've read on Breton, he took himself rather seriously. And like you said, "eventually disowned many of his early Surrealist friends for not towing his Party Line". I get along quite well with stuffy intellectual types though. I imagine Breton had a very stoic disposition, as do most people who ponder the nature of reality for long enough. I bet I could get him to change his mind about a few things! His stuborn outlook about "true Surrealism" is rather contradictory, don't you think? Because the realm of the unconscious mind of an indvidual is fluid and ever changing...so the Surrealist Manifesto should be too! After all, Breton himself concludes "that Surrealist activity follows no set plan or conventional pattern, and that Surrealists are ultimately nonconformists." <BR/><BR/>Maybe I should sit down with my Ouija Board and summon Breton...then I can address this question to him! Haha!<BR/><BR/>And yes I would have loved to have seen his collection! Better yet, to have been a fly on the wall at one of his parties! <BR/><BR/>Thank for reading! ;)Lady Lavonahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05896512560744076775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2445319837947149744.post-10018092897314162042008-11-13T15:59:00.000-08:002008-11-13T15:59:00.000-08:00I think you may be a Pop-Surrealist but unless you...I think you may be a Pop-Surrealist but unless you're a Marxist who believes only in art as that which bubbles up raw from the "unconscious" without any editing, Breton would have had nothing to do with you and refused to acknowledge you as a true Surrealist. In fact, he eventually disowned many of his early Surrealist friends for not towing his Party Line. He was never an easy fellow to get on with.<BR/><BR/>But wouldn't you have loved to have seen that collection!<BR/><BR/>I love surrealist art and the surrealist aesthetic. I think the Pop-Surrealists "get it". I think you do too. I love this place!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2445319837947149744.post-73165724468379778402008-11-13T11:54:00.000-08:002008-11-13T11:54:00.000-08:00There is a large collection of AB's things at ...There is a large collection of AB's things at the Pompidou Museum in Paris......quite beautfiul...here's the link: http://www.centrepompidou.fr/Pompidou/Musee.nsf/Docs/4F58844153859239C1257500002D93B0?OpenDocument&salle=1N5S22=salle&Key=1N5&L=1<BR/><BR/>Its in a very dark room and is most lovely....<BR/>xoxobloodmilk.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17567670584492365063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2445319837947149744.post-76300228592670274732008-11-13T11:42:00.000-08:002008-11-13T11:42:00.000-08:00What a wonderful post! I too have a collection of...What a wonderful post! I too have a collection of curiosities and think about what will become of them when I'm gone. My husband just smiles and says Ebay!Diane Irvine Armitagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01775862142053961191noreply@blogger.com