Bureau of the Centre for the Study of Surrealism And Its Legacy (Opus Projects S.)

8vo. 128 pp, Mark Dion's Surrealist Legacy by David Lomas; I. The Museum; II. Department of Zoology; III. Department of Botany; IV. Department of Earth Science; V. Department of Ethnology; VI. Department of Archaeology; VII. Departm; ent of Paradoxes and Numismatics; VIII. Archives; The Bureau de Recherches Surrealistes: Bureau by Anna Dezeuze; Laboratory by David Lomas; 'Centrale' by Julia Kelly; IX. The Bureau; acknologments with illustrations throughout. Opus Projects: Opus 4: Published by The AHRB Research Center for Studies of Surrealism and its Legacies and Book Works in associaltion with Alchemy/The Manchester Museum, The University of Manchester, 2005. Pictorial paper-covered boards with decorative endpapers. "Don't look for lobster telephones or other cheap surrealist cliches in Dion's Bureau. The link operates on another level, on pinpointed by Walter Benjamin who observed that the surerealists were the first to discern a revolutionary potential in the obsolete and the outmoded, in the material by-products and refuse of modernity. Self-consciously following in the surrealist' footsteps, Dion and his assistants scoured the flea markets of Manchester looking for a fireplace mantle and picture frames. The office furniture, including an opulent bureau desk retrieved from university stores where it had been discarded to gather dust. Books and sundry that now fill the shelves of the Bureau were earmarked for the incinetator -- Dion rescues these things and offers them a refuge. One can think of the Bureau as a snapshot or memento of a mode o curatorial practice that Dion might have felt was in danger of being irretrievable lost."from Mark Dion's Surrealist Legacy.