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'''Penelope Rosemont''' (born 1942 in [[Chicago, Illinois]]) a visual artist, writer, publisher, and social activist attended [[Lake Forest College]].She has been involved with the [[Surrealist]] group founded by Andre Breton since the 1965. With [[Franklin Rosemont]], Bernard Marszalek, Robert Green and Tor
'''Penelope Rosemont''' (born 1942 in [[Chicago, Illinois]]) is a visual artist, writer, publisher, and social activist who attended [[Lake Forest College]]. She has been a participant in the Surrealist Movement since 1965. With [[Franklin Rosemont]], Bernard Marszalek, Robert Green and Tor
Faegre, she established the [[Chicago Surrealist Group]] in 1966. She was in 1964-1966 a member of the [[Industrial Workers of the World]] (IWW), commonly known as the Wobblies, and was part of the national staff of [[Students for a Democratic Society]] (SDS) in 1967-68. Her influences include [[Andre Breton]] and [[Guy Debord]] of the [[Situationist International]], [[Emma Goldman]] and [[Lucy Parsons]].<ref>Rosemont, Frankin, Penelope Rosemont, and Paul Garon. The Forecast is Hot! Tracts and Other Declarations of the Surrealist Movement in the United States, 1966-1976. Black Swan Press, 1977, p. 173.
Faegre, she established the [[Chicago Surrealist Group]] in 1966.<ref>Abigail Susik, ''Surrealist Sabotage and the War on Work'', Manchester University Press, 2021, pp. 182 and 186-7</ref> She was in 1964-1966 a member of the [[Industrial Workers of the World]] (IWW), commonly known as the Wobblies, and was part of the national staff of [[Students for a Democratic Society]] (SDS) in 1967-68. Her influences include [[Andre Breton]] and [[Guy Debord]] of the [[Situationist International]], [[Emma Goldman]] and [[Lucy Parsons]].<ref>Rosemont, Frankin, Penelope Rosemont, and Paul Garon. The Forecast is Hot! Tracts and Other Declarations of the Surrealist Movement in the United States, 1966-1976. Black Swan Press, 1977, p. 173.
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==Visual Art==
==Visual art==


In 1986, Penelope Rosemont’s painting the “Marriage of Heaven and Hell” was included in the Venice Biennale, selected by Arturo Schwartz to be in the Art and Alchemy section. A painter, photographer, and [[collagist]], Rosemont is credited with having invented a number of surrealist collage methods including the "landscapade" and "insect music" [in which cut-out shapes are placed on the background of a musical score].<ref>{{cite web|author=G. Jurek Polanski|title=SURREALIST EXPERIENCES: 1001 Dawns, 221 Midnights.: By Penelope Rosemont, Foreword by Rikki Ducornet (Book Review)|url=http://www.artscope.net/VAREVIEWS/SurrealistExper0800.shtml|accessdate=June 21, 2007}}</ref> Rosemont is a writer and graphic designer for [[Arsenal/Surrealist Subversion]] and other publications.<ref>{{Cite book|first=Mari Jo|last=Buhle|authorlink=Mari Jo Buhle|title=Women and the American Left: A Guide to Sources|year=1983|publisher=G.K. Hall|pages=243}}</ref> Her painting ''The Night Time is the Right Time'' "was selected by the [[Chicago Jazz Institute]] for the 2000 [[Chicago Jazz Festival]] T-shirt".<ref>{{cite book|first=Franklin|last=Rosemont|title=Revolution in the Service of the Marvelous|publisher=Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company|year=2003|isbn=0-88286-350-9|pages=49}}</ref> A number of Rosemont's drawings and artwork appear in her books and are particularly abundant in ''Surrealist Experiences: 1001 Dawns, 221 Midnights''.
In 1986, Penelope Rosemont's painting the "Marriage of Heaven and Hell" was included in the Venice Biennale, selected by Arturo Schwartz to be in the Art and Alchemy section. A painter, photographer, and [[collagist]], Rosemont is credited with having invented a number of surrealist collage methods including the "landscapade" and "insect music" [in which cut-out shapes are placed on the background of a musical score].<ref>{{cite web|author=G. Jurek Polanski|title=SURREALIST EXPERIENCES: 1001 Dawns, 221 Midnights.: By Penelope Rosemont, Foreword by Rikki Ducornet (Book Review)|url=http://www.artscope.net/VAREVIEWS/SurrealistExper0800.shtml|accessdate=June 21, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140408022444/http://www.artscope.net/VAREVIEWS/SurrealistExper0800.shtml|archive-date=April 8, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> Rosemont is a writer and graphic designer for [[Arsenal/Surrealist Subversion]] and other publications.<ref>{{Cite book|first=Mari Jo|last=Buhle|authorlink=Mari Jo Buhle|title=Women and the American Left: A Guide to Sources|url=https://archive.org/details/womenamericanlef0000buhl|url-access=registration|year=1983|publisher=G.K. Hall|pages=[https://archive.org/details/womenamericanlef0000buhl/page/243 243]|isbn=978-0-8161-8195-7 }}</ref> Her painting ''The Night Time is the Right Time'' "was selected by the [[Chicago Jazz Institute]] for the 2000 [[Chicago Jazz Festival]] T-shirt".<ref>{{cite book|first=Franklin|last=Rosemont|title=Revolution in the Service of the Marvelous|publisher=Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company|year=2003|isbn=0-88286-350-9|pages=49}}</ref> A number of Rosemont's drawings and artwork appear in her books and are particularly abundant in ''Surrealist Experiences: 1001 Dawns, 221 Midnights''.


==Surrealism in and outside of Chicago==
==Surrealism in and outside of Chicago==
The Rosemonts write a great deal about their meeting with Andre Breton and other living Surrealists during a trip to Paris in 1965. Penelope writes about this important event in her life in the books ''Surrealist Experiences: 1001 Dawns, 221 Midnights'' and in her autobiographical work ''Dreams and Everyday Life: Andre Breton, Surrealism, Rebel Worker, SDS, & the Seven Cities of Cibola, A 1960s Notebook'' while Franklin discusses it in his final book, ''An Open Entrance into the Shut Palace of Wrong Numbers''. In the book '' Surrealist Experiences'', Penelope Rosemont writes about a nascent group of Surrealists that had already formed in Chicago, the Rebel Worker group, before they met Breton and in fact, this was the impetus to go to Paris, to meet some of the Surrealists they had been corresponding with. She writes that the initial plan was for Penelope and Franklin to go to London first and then to Paris. She writes "thanks to a spiteful, mean-spirited British immigration bureaucrat," they were diverted to Paris first rather than being able to go to London as planned. That event was fortuitous because as Penelope Rosemont describes it, Breton "became seriously ill a few months later."<ref>Rosemont, Penelope. Surrealist Experiences: 1001 Dawns, 221 Midnights. Black Swan Press, 2000. p. 1-2.</ref>
The Rosemonts write with enthusiasm about their meeting with Andre Breton and Surrealist group members during a stay in Paris in December 1965- May 1966. Penelope writes about this important period in her life in the books ''Surrealist Experiences: 1001 Dawns, 221 Midnights'' and in her autobiographical work ''Dreams and Everyday Life: Andre Breton, Surrealism, Rebel Worker, SDS, & the Seven Cities of Cibola, A 1960s Notebook'' while Franklin discusses it in his book, ''An Open Entrance into the Shut Palace of Wrong Numbers''. In the '' Surrealist Experiences'', Penelope Rosemont writes about a nascent group of Surrealists that had already formed in Chicago, the Rebel Worker group, before they met Breton and in fact, this was the impetus to go to Paris, to meet the Surrealists they had been corresponding with. She writes that the initial plan was to go to London first and then to Paris. She writes "thanks to a mean-spirited British immigration bureaucrat," they were deported to Paris. That event was fortuitous because the surrealist exhibition L’Ecart absolu was taking place at the time; she attended a New Years Eve party organized by surrealists;and she was able to talk with Breton before he "became seriously ill a few months later."<ref>Rosemont, Penelope. Surrealist Experiences: 1001 Dawns, 221 Midnights. Black Swan Press, 2000. p. 1-2.</ref>


The Rosemonts are also referenced in [[Helena Lewis]]' 1988 book on Surrealism and Politics, <i>Dada Turns Red.</i>. There, Lewis wrote:
The Rosemonts are referenced in [[Helena Lewis]]' 1988 book on Surrealism and Politics, ''Dada Turns Red.''. There, Lewis wrote:


"There was also a group of young people in Chicago in the late 1960s who made a connection between Surrealism and the old IWW, <i>The Rebel Worker</i> in which translations of Surrealist writing appeared . . . and they also published an art anthology of Surrealist political texts, in which the editor, Franklin Rosemont, explained how Surrealism was relevant to his movement." <ref>Lewis, Helena. Dada Turns Red: The Politics of Surrealism. Edinburgh University Press, 1988. p. 172.</ref>
"There was also a group of young people in Chicago in the late 1960s who made a connection between Surrealism and the old IWW, ''The Rebel Worker'' in which translations of Surrealist writing appeared . . . and they also published an art anthology of Surrealist political texts, in which the editor, Franklin Rosemont, explained how Surrealism was relevant to his movement." <ref>Lewis, Helena. Dada Turns Red: The Politics of Surrealism. Edinburgh University Press, 1988. p. 172.</ref>


In his book [[Freedom Dreams]] published in Boston, 2002 Robin D.G. Kelley writes “my search for an even more elaborate, complete dream of freedom...thanks to the many wonderful chance encounters with Franklin Rosemont, Penelope Rosemont, Ted Joans, Laura Corsiglia and Jayne Cortez, I discovered surrealism...right under my nose, so to speak, buried in the rich black soil of Afrodiasporic culture.” p.&nbsp;4
While Lewis failed to mention anyone outside of Franklin Rosemont and presented American/Chicago Surrealism as <i>his</i> movement, this does show that other scholars outside of Chicago recognize the importance of both Rosemonts to the contemporary Surrealist cause worldwide.


The Chicago Surrealist group, under their imprint [[Black Swan Press]], published the journal [[Arsenal/Surrealist Subversion]] sporadically from 1970 to 1989 which featured work from [[Richard Huelsenbeck]], [[Andre Breton]], [[Georges Bataille]], [[Ted Joans]] [[Jayne Cortez]] and many other Surrealists and fellow travelers, well-known and lesser known. Franklin and Penelope Rosemont were on the editorial board, along with (for issue 4), co-editors [[Paul Garon]], [[Joseph Jablonski]]. and [[Philip Lamantia]].
The Chicago Surrealist group, under their imprint [[Black Swan Press]], published the journal [[Arsenal/Surrealist Subversion]] sporadically from 1970 to 1989 which featured the work of [[Richard Huelsenbeck]], [[Andre Breton]], [[Georges Bataille]], [[Ted Joans]] [[Jayne Cortez]] and many other Surrealists, well-known and lesser known. Franklin and Penelope Rosemont were on the editorial board, along with (for issue 4), co-editors [[Paul Garon]], [[Joseph Jablonski]] and [[Philip Lamantia]].


==Books: Poetry, Memoirs, History==
==Books: poetry, memoirs, and history==


Rosemont is the editor of ''[[Surrealist Women: An International Anthology]]'' (University of Texas, 1998), a book of over 500 pages of writing by women in the Surrealist movement, both past and present, dating back to the beginnings of Surrealism in the 1920s. ' It features such women as [[Meret Oppenheim]], [[Mary Low]], [[Leonora Carrington]], [[Nancy Cunard]], [[Frida Kahlo]], [[Dorothea Tanning]], [[Elisa Breton]], [[Kay Sage]], [[Jayne Cortez]], and [[Rikki Ducornet]] (who has written the preface and introduction to a number of Rosemont's books], just to name a few.
Penelope Rosemont is the editor and wrote extensive introductions for her book ''[[Surrealist Women: An International Anthology]]'' (University of Texas, 1998), a book of over 500 pages of writing and art by women in the Surrealist movement, both past and present, dating back to the beginnings of Surrealism in the 1920s. It features [[Meret Oppenheim]], [[Mary Low (surrealist)|Mary Low]], [[Leonora Carrington]], [[Nancy Cunard]], [[Frida Kahlo]], [[Dorothea Tanning]], [[Elisa Breton]], [[Kay Sage]], [[Jayne Cortez]], [[Rikki Ducornet]] and over one hundred more.


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Her latest book is “Make Love, Not War: Surrealism 1968!” With Don LaCoss and Michael Lowy (Kerr Publishing, Chicago 2018)
She is the author of ''Surrealist Experiences: 1001 Dawns, 221 Midnights'' ([[Black Swan Press]], 2000), and books of poetry, including ''Beware of the Ice'', and ''Athanor'' (1971).
She is the author of ''Surrealist Experiences: 1001 Dawns, 221 Midnights'' ([[Black Swan Press]], 2000), and books of poetry, including ''Beware of the Ice'', and ''Athanor'' (1971).


In 1997, Black Swan Press released the book ''The Forecast is Hot!, Tracts and Other Collective Declarations of the Surrealist Movement in the United States'', which Penelope co-authored with her husband Franklin and fellow Chicago Surrealist [[Paul Garon]].
In 1997, Black Swan Press released the book ''The Forecast is Hot!, and Other Collective Declarations of the Surrealist Movement in the United States'', which Penelope co-authored with Franklin Rosemont and fellow Chicago Surrealist [[Paul Garon]].


She also edited ''The Story of Mary Maclane & Other Writings'' by Mary Maclane in 1998, which was re-released by Charles H. Kerr, having originally been published in 1902. MacLane has been "hailed as the first 'New Woman' in literature, the first flapper and a precursor of surrealism."<ref>THE STORY OF MARY MACLANE AND OTHER WRITINGS, https://www.boekenplatform.nl/story-mary-maclane-and-other-writings-315900</ref>
She also edited ''The Story of Mary MacLane & Other Writings'' by [[Mary MacLane]] in 1998, which was re-released by Charles H. Kerr, having originally been published in 1902. MacLane has been "hailed as the first 'New Woman' in literature, the first flapper and a precursor of surrealism."<ref>THE STORY OF MARY MACLANE AND OTHER WRITINGS, https://www.boekenplatform.nl/story-mary-maclane-and-other-writings-315900 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180911002526/https://www.boekenplatform.nl/story-mary-maclane-and-other-writings-315900 |date=September 11, 2018 }}</ref>


In 2008 her memoir came out, ''Dreams & Everyday Life, André Breton, Surrealism, Rebel Worker, SDS & the Seven Cities of Cibola'', a collection of stories about her life in the 1960s from radicalism in Chicago to meeting Andre Breton in Paris, to London and back again to Chicago in 1968.
In 2008 her memoir came out, ''Dreams & Everyday Life, André Breton, Surrealism, Rebel Worker, SDS & the Seven Cities of Cibola'', about her life in the 1960s from moving to Chicago to meeting Andre Breton in Paris, to London and back again to Chicago in 1968.


A collection of true stories of Chicago, ''Armitage Avenue Transcendentalists'' edited by Rosemont and Janina Ciezadlo came out in 2009. She also wrote a forward to ''Crime & Criminals: Address to the Prisoners in the Cook County Jail & Other Writings on Crime'' by [[Clarence Darrow]].
A collection of true Chicago stories, ''Armitage Avenue Transcendentalists'' edited by Rosemont and Janina Ciezadlo came out in 2009. She also wrote a foreword to ''Crime & Criminals: Address to the Prisoners in the Cook County Jail & Other Writings on Crime'' by [[Clarence Darrow]].


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In 2018 “Make Love, Not War: Surrealism 1968!” co-authored with Don LaCoss and Michael Lowy, was published by Charles H. Kerr Publishing, Chicago.
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==Women and Surrealism==


''Surrealism: Inside the Magnetic Fields'', which recounts her experiences and historical perspective on the field of surrealism, was published by City Lights in 2019.
In addition to editing the anthology <i>Surrealist Women,</i> Rosemont has written extensively about women, including Toyen, specifically, as well as naming a number of French Surrealist women, who are often omitted from the history of Surrealism, in her book <i>Surrealist Experiences</i>. <i>The story of Mary MacLane</i> also appears in <i>Surrealist Experiences</i> approximately 3 years before Charles H. Kerr republished the memoirs of a free spirited woman at the turn of the 20th century and beyond. She has also been involved with several public discussions and articles involving the women of Surrealism. By her presence in the American Surrealist movement, her activism, and her publishing, she has been one of the people who have raised the profile of women in the movement.


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==Women and surrealism==
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==Charles H. Kerr Publishing==


In addition to editing the anthology ''Surrealist Women,'' Rosemont has written extensively about women, including Toyen, specifically, as well as many Surrealist women, who are often omitted from the history of Surrealism, in her book ''Surrealist Experiences''
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In 1983 she and her husband [[Franklin Rosemont]] became directors of [[Charles H. Kerr & Company]], a publisher of books on history and radical history in Chicago<ref>{{cite book|first=Allen|last=Ruff|title="We Called Each Other Comrade": Charles H. Kerr and Company, Radical Publishers|publisher=University of Illinois.}}</ref>


She has also been outspoken in public discussions and articles in the promotion and defense of the women of Surrealism. By her presence in the American Surrealist movement, her activism, and her publishing, she has been one of the people who have raised the profile of women in the movement.
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The Alternatives in Publication Task Force of the Social Responsibilities Round Table of the [[American Library Association]] awards the Jackie Eubanks Memorial Award, which "recognizes outstanding achievement in promoting the acquisition and use of alternative materials in libraries.".<ref>{{cite web|title=Jackie Eubanks Memorial Award|url=http://libr.org/amtf/eubanks.html|accessdate=June 21, 2007}}</ref> In 2001, the Rosemonts and [[Carlos Cortez]] received the award for their work "rescuing and re-charging" Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company. Based in Chicago, CHK Publishing is "one of the oldest going publishers of socialist books and pamphlets in the United States."<ref>Social Responsibility Roundtable Newsletter, American Library Association, http://www.libr.org/srrt/news/srrt136.pdf</ref>


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==Charles H. Kerr Publishing==
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==Social Activism==


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In 1983 she and [[Franklin Rosemont]] became directors of [[Charles H. Kerr & Company]], a publisher of books on history and Chicago history <ref>{{cite book|first=Allen|last=Ruff|title="We Called Each Other Comrade": Charles H. Kerr and Company, Radical Publishers|publisher=University of Illinois.}}</ref>
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Penelope Rosemont was a member of the IWW (Wobblies) and SDS in the 1960s. Her late husband [[Franklin Rosemont]] compiled a collection consisting of pamphlets, wall posters, and periodicals focusing on the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the 1968 Democratic convention, which was donated to the [[Newberry Library]]in 2008<ref>Newberry Library Collection abstract, https://mms.newberry.org/detail.asp?recordid=1435</ref> by Penelope, who had worked in the SDS office in 1968. Her book ''Armitage Avenue Transcendentalists'' details stories in the lives of a number of activists, including famous Chicagoan [[Studs Terkel]].


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The Alternatives in Publication Task Force of the Social Responsibilities Round Table of the [[American Library Association]] awards the [[Jacqueline Eubanks|Jackie Eubanks]] Memorial Award, which "recognizes outstanding achievement in promoting the acquisition and use of alternative materials in libraries.".<ref>{{cite web|title=Jackie Eubanks Memorial Award|url=http://libr.org/amtf/eubanks.html|accessdate=June 21, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303230825/http://libr.org/amtf/eubanks.html|archive-date=March 3, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2001, the Rosemonts and [[Carlos Cortez]] received the award for their work "rescuing and re-charging" Charles H. Kerr Publishing."<ref>Social Responsibility Roundtable Newsletter, American Library Association, http://www.libr.org/srrt/news/srrt136.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170320143947/http://libr.org/srrt/news/srrt136.pdf |date=March 20, 2017 }}</ref>
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In 1977, continuing the Surrealist tradition of protesting bourgeois art, Rosemont was arrested for handing out leaflets as part of a Surrealist action denouncing the city of Chicago's expenditure of $100,000 to erect a [[Claes Oldenberg]] sculpture the [[Batcolumn]].<ref>Hyde Park Herald, https://newspaperarchive.com/us/illinois/chicago/chicago-hyde-park-herald/1977/04-20/page-14?tag=penelope+rosemont&rtserp=tags/?pc=5196&psi=37&pci=7&pf=penelope&pl=rosemont/</ref>


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==Social activism==
In 2007, there was a meeting of activists held at [[Loyola University Chicago|Loyola University]], that Penelope Rosemont attended, feeling hopeful about the chances of building a new SDS. At that meeting, she urged people to "remember our history will effect what happens in the future; that we must examine those days, what we did, how we organized to be able to develop new strategies and avoid old mistakes; support a movement with a large left spectrum; support young anarchists in their efforts and not abandon our utopian visions."<ref>Smith, T. CHICAGO CONFIDENTIAL! First National Convergence of the Movement for a Democratic Society. Indymedia Los Angeles. http://la.indymedia.org/news/2007/11/210023.php</ref>"


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Penelope Rosemont was a member of the IWW (Wobblies) and SDS in the 1960s. With [[Franklin Rosemont]] she compiled a collection of pamphlets, wall posters, and periodicals focusing on the IWW acquired by the [[Newberry Library]] in 2008<ref>Newberry Library Collection abstract, https://mms.newberry.org/detail.asp?recordid=1435 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211011002114/https://mms.newberry.org/detail.asp?recordid=1435 |date=October 11, 2021 }}</ref> Her book ''Armitage Avenue Transcendentalists'' details stories in the lives of a number of activists, including famous Chicagoan [[Studs Terkel]].
==Videos==
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*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_UhojKPRr4 Chicago Surrealism Update with Penelope Rosemont, <i>Chicago's Heartland Show</i>.]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYkSvWYupi0 Chicago Surrealism: An Exhibition of Surrealism and Anarchism, <i>Chicago's Heartland Show</i>.]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjTtSTiZCa8 Diet Soap Podcast #23: <i>Dreams and Everyday Life</i>.]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK10N_9pLus <i>Chicago's Heartland Show</i>. <i>The Counter Culture Hour,</i> Penelope Rosemont part I.]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcjtYlMpGnE <i>Chicago's Heartland Show</i>. <i>The Counter Culture Hour,</i> Penelope Rosemont part II.]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duOFxkCaIzI <i>Chicago's Heartland Show</i>. <i>The Counter Culture Hour,</i> Penelope Rosemont part III.]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7oHTddrBCU <i>Chicago's Heartland Show</i>. <i>The Counter Culture Hour,</i> Penelope Rosemont part IV.]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFbc0srplO8 <i>Chicago's Heartland Show</i>. <i>The Counter Culture Hour,</i> Penelope Rosemont part V.]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ9-bm4mX3w <i>Chicago's Heartland Show</i>. <i>The Counter Culture Hour,</i> Penelope Rosemont part VI.]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9RCbE_mm0Q <i>Chicago's Heartland Show</i>. <i>The Counter Culture Hour,</i> Penelope Rosemont part VII.]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZvlmN9Yyns <i>Chicago's Heartland Show</i>. <i>The Counter Culture Hour,</i> Penelope Rosemont part VIII.]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vnXGfQyZ-g <i>Chicago's Heartland Show</i>. <i>The Counter Culture Hour,</i> Penelope Rosemont part IX.]


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In 1977, continuing the Surrealist tradition of protesting bourgeois art, Penelope Rosemont and other surrealists were arrested for handing out leaflets as part of a Surrealist action protesting the "giant billy club" called the "bat column" on which Chicago spent $100,000 to erect the [[Claes Oldenburg]] [[Batcolumn]].<ref>Hyde Park Herald, https://newspaperarchive.com/us/illinois/chicago/chicago-hyde-park-herald/1977/04-20/page-14?tag=penelope+rosemont&rtserp=tags/?pc=5196&psi=37&pci=7&pf=penelope&pl=rosemont/</ref>


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==References==
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{{Reflist}}


==External links==
==External links==
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*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_UhojKPRr4 Chicago Surrealism Update with Penelope Rosemont, ''Chicago's Heartland Show''.]
* [http://www.surrealistgruppen.org/surrwomen.html Forshage, Mattias. To the question of surrealism and women. The Stockholm Surrealist Group.]
* [http://www.surrealistgruppen.org/surrwomen.html Forshage, Mattias. To the question of surrealism and women. The Stockholm Surrealist Group.]
* [http://criticallegalthinking.com/2011/01/12/dreams-of-arson-the-arson-of-dreams-surrealism-in-68/ LaCoss, Don.Dreams of Arson & the Arson of Dreams: Surrealism in ‘68, Critical Legal Thinking. This article talks about the Rosemonts meeting Andre Breton in Chicago.]
* [http://criticallegalthinking.com/2011/01/12/dreams-of-arson-the-arson-of-dreams-surrealism-in-68/ LaCoss, Don.Dreams of Arson & the Arson of Dreams: Surrealism in ‘68, Critical Legal Thinking. This article talks about the Rosemonts meeting Andre Breton in Chicago.]
* [http://encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/230.html Entry on Charles H. Kerr Publishing,written by Penelope Rosemont, as one of the editors ]
* [http://encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/230.html Entry on Charles H. Kerr Publishing,written by Penelope Rosemont, as one of the editors ]
*[https://archives.newberry.org/repositories/2/resources/1234 Franklin and Penelope Rosemont collection of IWW publications] at the [[Newberry Library]]
* [http://joaap.org/issue8/Sakolsky_surrealists.htm Sakolsky , Ron. THE SURREALIST ADVENTURE AND THE POETRY of DIRECT ACTION: Passionate Encounters Between the Chicago Surrealist Group, the Wobblies and Earth First! Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, Issue 8.]
* [http://joaap.org/issue8/Sakolsky_surrealists.htm Sakolsky , Ron. THE SURREALIST ADVENTURE AND THE POETRY of DIRECT ACTION: Passionate Encounters Between the Chicago Surrealist Group, the Wobblies and Earth First! Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, Issue 8.]
* [https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/penelope-rosemont-the-psychopathology-of-work The Psychopathology of Work]


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Penelope Rosemont
Penelope Rosemont signing at Chicago's Women and Children First, 2007.

Penelope Rosemont (born 1942 in Chicago, Illinois) is a visual artist, writer, publisher, and social activist who attended Lake Forest College. She has been a participant in the Surrealist Movement since 1965. With Franklin Rosemont, Bernard Marszalek, Robert Green and Tor Faegre, she established the Chicago Surrealist Group in 1966.[1] She was in 1964-1966 a member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), commonly known as the Wobblies, and was part of the national staff of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in 1967-68. Her influences include Andre Breton and Guy Debord of the Situationist International, Emma Goldman and Lucy Parsons.[2]

Visual art

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In 1986, Penelope Rosemont's painting the "Marriage of Heaven and Hell" was included in the Venice Biennale, selected by Arturo Schwartz to be in the Art and Alchemy section. A painter, photographer, and collagist, Rosemont is credited with having invented a number of surrealist collage methods including the "landscapade" and "insect music" [in which cut-out shapes are placed on the background of a musical score].[3] Rosemont is a writer and graphic designer for Arsenal/Surrealist Subversion and other publications.[4] Her painting The Night Time is the Right Time "was selected by the Chicago Jazz Institute for the 2000 Chicago Jazz Festival T-shirt".[5] A number of Rosemont's drawings and artwork appear in her books and are particularly abundant in Surrealist Experiences: 1001 Dawns, 221 Midnights.

Surrealism in and outside of Chicago

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The Rosemonts write with enthusiasm about their meeting with Andre Breton and Surrealist group members during a stay in Paris in December 1965- May 1966. Penelope writes about this important period in her life in the books Surrealist Experiences: 1001 Dawns, 221 Midnights and in her autobiographical work Dreams and Everyday Life: Andre Breton, Surrealism, Rebel Worker, SDS, & the Seven Cities of Cibola, A 1960s Notebook while Franklin discusses it in his book, An Open Entrance into the Shut Palace of Wrong Numbers. In the Surrealist Experiences, Penelope Rosemont writes about a nascent group of Surrealists that had already formed in Chicago, the Rebel Worker group, before they met Breton and in fact, this was the impetus to go to Paris, to meet the Surrealists they had been corresponding with. She writes that the initial plan was to go to London first and then to Paris. She writes "thanks to a mean-spirited British immigration bureaucrat," they were deported to Paris. That event was fortuitous because the surrealist exhibition L’Ecart absolu was taking place at the time; she attended a New Years Eve party organized by surrealists;and she was able to talk with Breton before he "became seriously ill a few months later."[6]

The Rosemonts are referenced in Helena Lewis' 1988 book on Surrealism and Politics, Dada Turns Red.. There, Lewis wrote:

"There was also a group of young people in Chicago in the late 1960s who made a connection between Surrealism and the old IWW, The Rebel Worker in which translations of Surrealist writing appeared . . . and they also published an art anthology of Surrealist political texts, in which the editor, Franklin Rosemont, explained how Surrealism was relevant to his movement." [7]

In his book Freedom Dreams published in Boston, 2002 Robin D.G. Kelley writes “my search for an even more elaborate, complete dream of freedom...thanks to the many wonderful chance encounters with Franklin Rosemont, Penelope Rosemont, Ted Joans, Laura Corsiglia and Jayne Cortez, I discovered surrealism...right under my nose, so to speak, buried in the rich black soil of Afrodiasporic culture.” p. 4

The Chicago Surrealist group, under their imprint Black Swan Press, published the journal Arsenal/Surrealist Subversion sporadically from 1970 to 1989 which featured the work of Richard Huelsenbeck, Andre Breton, Georges Bataille, Ted Joans Jayne Cortez and many other Surrealists, well-known and lesser known. Franklin and Penelope Rosemont were on the editorial board, along with (for issue 4), co-editors Paul Garon, Joseph Jablonski and Philip Lamantia.

Books: poetry, memoirs, and history

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Penelope Rosemont is the editor and wrote extensive introductions for her book Surrealist Women: An International Anthology (University of Texas, 1998), a book of over 500 pages of writing and art by women in the Surrealist movement, both past and present, dating back to the beginnings of Surrealism in the 1920s. It features Meret Oppenheim, Mary Low, Leonora Carrington, Nancy Cunard, Frida Kahlo, Dorothea Tanning, Elisa Breton, Kay Sage, Jayne Cortez, Rikki Ducornet and over one hundred more.

She is the author of Surrealist Experiences: 1001 Dawns, 221 Midnights (Black Swan Press, 2000), and books of poetry, including Beware of the Ice, and Athanor (1971).

In 1997, Black Swan Press released the book The Forecast is Hot!, and Other Collective Declarations of the Surrealist Movement in the United States, which Penelope co-authored with Franklin Rosemont and fellow Chicago Surrealist Paul Garon.

She also edited The Story of Mary MacLane & Other Writings by Mary MacLane in 1998, which was re-released by Charles H. Kerr, having originally been published in 1902. MacLane has been "hailed as the first 'New Woman' in literature, the first flapper and a precursor of surrealism."[8]

In 2008 her memoir came out, Dreams & Everyday Life, André Breton, Surrealism, Rebel Worker, SDS & the Seven Cities of Cibola, about her life in the 1960s from moving to Chicago to meeting Andre Breton in Paris, to London and back again to Chicago in 1968.

A collection of true Chicago stories, Armitage Avenue Transcendentalists edited by Rosemont and Janina Ciezadlo came out in 2009. She also wrote a foreword to Crime & Criminals: Address to the Prisoners in the Cook County Jail & Other Writings on Crime by Clarence Darrow.

In 2018 “Make Love, Not War: Surrealism 1968!” co-authored with Don LaCoss and Michael Lowy, was published by Charles H. Kerr Publishing, Chicago.

Surrealism: Inside the Magnetic Fields, which recounts her experiences and historical perspective on the field of surrealism, was published by City Lights in 2019.

Women and surrealism

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In addition to editing the anthology Surrealist Women, Rosemont has written extensively about women, including Toyen, specifically, as well as many Surrealist women, who are often omitted from the history of Surrealism, in her book Surrealist Experiences

She has also been outspoken in public discussions and articles in the promotion and defense of the women of Surrealism. By her presence in the American Surrealist movement, her activism, and her publishing, she has been one of the people who have raised the profile of women in the movement.

Charles H. Kerr Publishing

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In 1983 she and Franklin Rosemont became directors of Charles H. Kerr & Company, a publisher of books on history and Chicago history [9]

The Alternatives in Publication Task Force of the Social Responsibilities Round Table of the American Library Association awards the Jackie Eubanks Memorial Award, which "recognizes outstanding achievement in promoting the acquisition and use of alternative materials in libraries.".[10] In 2001, the Rosemonts and Carlos Cortez received the award for their work "rescuing and re-charging" Charles H. Kerr Publishing."[11]

Social activism

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Penelope Rosemont was a member of the IWW (Wobblies) and SDS in the 1960s. With Franklin Rosemont she compiled a collection of pamphlets, wall posters, and periodicals focusing on the IWW acquired by the Newberry Library in 2008[12] Her book Armitage Avenue Transcendentalists details stories in the lives of a number of activists, including famous Chicagoan Studs Terkel.

In 1977, continuing the Surrealist tradition of protesting bourgeois art, Penelope Rosemont and other surrealists were arrested for handing out leaflets as part of a Surrealist action protesting the "giant billy club" called the "bat column" on which Chicago spent $100,000 to erect the Claes Oldenburg Batcolumn.[13]

References

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  1. ^ Abigail Susik, Surrealist Sabotage and the War on Work, Manchester University Press, 2021, pp. 182 and 186-7
  2. ^ Rosemont, Frankin, Penelope Rosemont, and Paul Garon. The Forecast is Hot! Tracts and Other Declarations of the Surrealist Movement in the United States, 1966-1976. Black Swan Press, 1977, p. 173.
  3. ^ G. Jurek Polanski. "SURREALIST EXPERIENCES: 1001 Dawns, 221 Midnights.: By Penelope Rosemont, Foreword by Rikki Ducornet (Book Review)". Archived from the original on April 8, 2014. Retrieved June 21, 2007.
  4. ^ Buhle, Mari Jo (1983). Women and the American Left: A Guide to Sources. G.K. Hall. pp. 243. ISBN 978-0-8161-8195-7.
  5. ^ Rosemont, Franklin (2003). Revolution in the Service of the Marvelous. Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company. p. 49. ISBN 0-88286-350-9.
  6. ^ Rosemont, Penelope. Surrealist Experiences: 1001 Dawns, 221 Midnights. Black Swan Press, 2000. p. 1-2.
  7. ^ Lewis, Helena. Dada Turns Red: The Politics of Surrealism. Edinburgh University Press, 1988. p. 172.
  8. ^ THE STORY OF MARY MACLANE AND OTHER WRITINGS, https://www.boekenplatform.nl/story-mary-maclane-and-other-writings-315900 Archived September 11, 2018, at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^ Ruff, Allen. "We Called Each Other Comrade": Charles H. Kerr and Company, Radical Publishers. University of Illinois.
  10. ^ "Jackie Eubanks Memorial Award". Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved June 21, 2007.
  11. ^ Social Responsibility Roundtable Newsletter, American Library Association, http://www.libr.org/srrt/news/srrt136.pdf Archived March 20, 2017, at the Wayback Machine
  12. ^ Newberry Library Collection abstract, https://mms.newberry.org/detail.asp?recordid=1435 Archived October 11, 2021, at the Wayback Machine
  13. ^ Hyde Park Herald, https://newspaperarchive.com/us/illinois/chicago/chicago-hyde-park-herald/1977/04-20/page-14?tag=penelope+rosemont&rtserp=tags/?pc=5196&psi=37&pci=7&pf=penelope&pl=rosemont/
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