GREEK ARRIVAL
An overlooked locale of surrealism explored
Karen Emmerich
Surrealism in Greece:
An Anthology (Surrealist Revolution Series)
translation by Nikos Stabakis
University of Texas Press
$65.00 List Price
Nikos Stabakis introduces this anthology by noting the conspicuous absence of Greece—its classical tradition a symbol of the “insipid rationality” against which André Breton and his circle rebelled—from the “Surrealist Map of the World” printed in Variétés in 1929. For most viewers of that map, the omission of Greece from a minuscule Europe comprising only Germany, an anachronistic Austro-Hungary, and a bull’s-eye dot for
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