Christian Dotremont
Belgian Surrealist Group
The Belgian Surrealist Group, led by Christian Dotremont, was a break-away faction of its French counterpart. The split occurred after 1945 when Andre Breton, the leader of the Surrealist Group, returned from the U.S. where he had taken refuge during the war years. His intention was to shift the focus of the group activities towards mysticism, away from political militancy. He broke with the Communist Party and expected everybody else to follow (The surrealist and the Communist Party always had very strong links).
Dotremont and other members who had spent the war years in Europe, taking part in anti-Nazi resistance responded by forming the Revolutionary Surrealist Group, based in Brussels. --http://art.ntu.ac.uk/mental/storie/bbpre.htm [Sept 2004]
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