Self-publishing as a Surrealist Strategy: The Samizdat Catalogues of the Surrealist Group in Czechoslovakia

Abstract

T Czech Surrealist Group was founded in 1934.1 Despite external influences that disrupted the network for some time and led to shifts in the structure and self-understanding of the collective, over 80 years later a surrealist community still exists in Czech Republic which follows the idea of uniting the practice of art and life.2 However, the 1970s and 1980s marked a specific period for the group.3 With the beginning of so-called “normalization” after the violent end of the Prague