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Textes et images:
Pierre Alechinsky, Yves Battistini, Guido Biaisi, Jean-Claude Biraben, Adrien Dax, Marcel Duchamp, Rene Duvillier, Giuseppe Gallizioli, Jef Golyscheff, Eugenio Granell, Jindrich Heisler, Christian Hibon, Edouard Jaguer, Jiri Kolar, Djordje Kostic, Mary Low, Ladislav Novak, Alice Paalen, Jules Perahim, JOzef Peeters, Gilles Petitclerc, Fernando Alves Dos Santos, Jean-Claude Silbermann, Guillaume Vnaden Borre, Robert Valancay, John W. Welson

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Adrien Dax , born in 1913 in Toulouse ( Haute-Garonne ) and died in the same city in 1979 , is a painter and a French writer, libertarian and surrealist .
In the early 1930s, after going to the " Young Socialists " Adrien Dax engages in " communist youth ". It will become the regional secretary, but will be excluded soon after. Sole support of his mother, he will give to engage in the Spanish war .
After the 1940 defeat, Adrien Dax is imprisoned in Stalag Pomeranian. He was released two years after 1

In 1947 he went to Paris to attend a training course (to become "Engineer rural work") and, on this occasion, he made ​​contact with the surrealists 2 .

In 1950, in his surreal Almanac half century , André Breton publishes the text of Dax, automatic Perspective .

In November 1951, Le Libertaire , the organ of the Anarchist Federation , published his first article Art subjected engaged art where it highlights the lack of difference between the academic and bourgeois art and the "Stalinist socialist realism."

First artist, Adrien Dax is developing a technique derived from the automation : the "impression of relief (s)" (1955). Near lithography, relief printing is achieved by random objects that the artist introduced between the stone and paper when drawing lithography 3 .

He signed the Manifesto of the 121 ( Declaration on the Right to Insubordination in the War of Algeria on 5 September 1960).

Three years after the death of André Breton , fearing that surrealism can not escape the rehashed, the sterile pose and parody, Adrien Dax is part of the group that proclaims its self-dissolution.

He was also a "passionate collector Oceanic Art" 4 .

Mary Caffrey Low Carver (March 22, 1850 - March 4, 1926) was an American librarian and educator. She was one of the five founding members of the Sigma Kappa sorority and a pioneering advocate for women's education, along with being an accomplished library scientist and writer.