The Anti-colonial Exhibition in Paris (1931) and the Surrealist Counterpublic
Abstract
The paper presents and analyzes the anti-colonial exhibition that was created as an expression of the critical public's protest against the official Colonial exhibition held in 1931 in Paris. This counter-exhibition, organized by representatives of the French Surrealist movement together with members of the Communist Party of France, is a unique and insufficiently known example of cooperation between the political and artistic avant-garde during the turbulent 1930s. This characteristic episode from the intellectual history of Europe of the interwar period, which we will historically contextualize and describe, proves to be important for understanding the internal dynamics of the Surrealist movement, the dialectical relationship of the public and counter-publicity. In that context, it can shed new light on the specific position of the Belgrade Surrealists and their participation in the creation of the cultural policy of socialist Yugoslavia, which was given an important international stamp by the anti-colonial policy of the non-aligned.
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