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From http://www.infosurr.net/kiosque/Atlas-ark.htm:
This Bulletin will come out 6 times a year and will collect and redistribute news and information about Surrealism. It is also intended as a forum for voicing opinions. Eight pages will report on recent research about Surrealism and its most obscure zones. A network of international correspondents will collect data on all Surrealist events: visual arts, literature, criticism, the media, politics, polemics, daily life, etc...

This new series is devoted to neglected groups or coherent issues within the avant-garde "anti-tradition" of the last one hundred years. Where possible these will take a documentary form : we will be translating, or reprinting, collections and documents edited by the groups themselves, or whenever possible (with recent or currently active groups) with editorial input from active members. The first issue is now available, the second underway, future issues will appear at intervals of between 6 & 9 months and may appear in a different order from that given here.

Includes writing by: Ruth Henry, Gaston Chaissac, Philippe Collage, Jean-Pierre Duprey, Jacqueline Lamba, Claude Cahun, Charles Fourier, Jean Schuster

On Claude Cahun:
In 1937 Cahun and Malherbe settled in Jersey. Following the fall of France and the German occupation of Jersey and the other Channel Islands, they became active as resistance workers and propagandists. Fervently against war, the two worked extensively in producing anti-German fliers. Many were snippets from English-to-German translations of BBC reports on the Nazis' crimes and insolence, which were pasted together to create rhythmic poems and harsh criticism. The couple then dressed up and attended many German military events in Jersey, strategically placing them in soldier's pockets, on their chairs, etc. Also, they inconspicuously crumpled up and threw their fliers into cars and windows. In many ways, Cahun and Malherbe's resistance efforts were not only political but artistic actions, using their creative talents to manipulate and undermine the authority which they despised. In many ways, Cahun's life's work was focused on undermining a certain authority, however her specific resistance fighting targeted a physically dangerous threat. In 1944 she was arrested and sentenced to death, but the sentences were never carried out. However, Cahun's health never recovered from her treatment in jail, and she died in 1954. She is buried in St Brelade's Church with her partner Suzanne Malherbe.