While Spanish researchers know perfectly well the ins and outs of surrealism, both in Spain and France, their relations with French colleagues remain very punctual, and their meetings are very rare. This is to say how much I was delighted to be invited to the days organized by the University of La Laguna, in the Canaries. This gave me the opportunity to revisit at leisure the botanical garden of Tenerife, evoked by André Breton in Mad Love. I even made it the subject of my intervention!

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Surrealismo siglo 21 Domingo Luis Hernández Álvarez (coord.), ed. Gobierno de Canarias, 2006 Proceedings of the International Congress "Surrealismo Siglo 21" (1. 2006. La Laguna).

Volume contents: Proceedings of the colloquium organized at the University of La Laguna from June 19 to 28, 2005, as part of the activities programmed to commemorate the centenary of the birth of the painter Oscar Dominguez. The work consists of three parts: 1. Surrealism; 2. Seminar dedicated to Oscar Dominguez; 3. On the journal Gaceta de Arte.

Surrealismo siglo 21, Domingo Luis Hernández Álvarez, 10-15 Romanticism and Surrealism: Miguel Pérez Corrales 18-43 Surrealist Legacies in Contemporary Art: Some Anti-biographical, Anti-imagistic Trajectories Anna Dezeuze 44-49 Futurist Future, Dada Present and Wireless Surrealist Time: Georges Sebbag 50-59 Surrealism in Debate: Defenders and Detractors: Fernando Castro Borrego, 60-87 Encounter and Surreality: Jorge Camacho 90-97 From the Invention of Nature to Surrealism: Nilo Francisco Palenzuela Borges 98-103 Eroticism in Surrealism: Sarane Alexandrian 104-115 Woman, Eros: Surrealism and Psychoanalysis: Iris M. Zavala Zapata 116-125 The Surrealist Dream Before the Bone of Reality: Amalia Rodríguez Monroy 126-133 Surrealism and Phases: Simple Past and Continuous Present: Edward Jaguer 134-139 Poetry and Revolution. Emergencies of the Rupture Surrealist Group: Lourdes Terrón Barbosa 140-153 The Surrealist Image: José Jiménez 156-163 As in an Enchanted Forest. The Surrealists' Cinema: Fernando Gabriel Martín Rodríguez 164-177 Surrealism Goes to the Cinema: "The Eye Exists in a Wild State": Sergio Lima 178-199 Photography from Surrealism: Carmelo Vega de la Rosa 200-209 The Most Transparent Room or "More Real than Reality": Jose Luis Pardo Torío 210-221 Heterodoxy as Triumph (and Failure) of Spanish Plastic Surrealism: Javier Pérez Segura 224-231 Red on Gray Background. Surrealism in Portugal: Perfecto Cuadrado Fernández 232-249 Overseas Surrealism or 17 Years After "Surrealism Between Old and New World": Juan Manuel Bonet 250-259 The Double Star: Surrealism in Ibero-America: Raúl Henao 260-267 Surrealism in Brazil? 1920s and 1930s: Jorge Schwartz 268-277 Óscar Domínguez: Óscar Domínguez and Surrealism in Paris (1927-1957): Edward Jaguer 280-287 The Memory of the Future: Georges Sebbag 288-297 The Fruit Bowl Eats Fruit: Humor and Metamorphosis in Óscar Domínguez's Work: Fernando Castro Borrego 298-305 "Sky Tremor". (Decalcomanias Without Preconceived Object in the Cosmic Era.): Emmanuel Guigon 306-317 A Happy Stage in Óscar Domínguez's Painting: Lázaro Santana 318-325 Óscar Domínguez's False Chiricos: Federico Utrera 326-331 The Two Who Cross: Óscar Domínguez and Writing: Isabel Castells Molina 332-343 A Visit to the Garden of Desperides: Henri Béhar 344-357 Gaceta de Arte, New Objectivity, Surrealism: Surrealism and Interwar Journals Serge Fauchereau 360-365 Under a Second Sun of Canarian Surrealists: C. Brian Morris 366-379 Vanguardists Between Two Waters. The Case of "Gaceta de Arte". Enrique Granell Trías 380-389 "Gaceta de Arte": Surrealist Journal? A Journal of New Objectivity and the Constructivist International: María Isabel Navarro Segura 390-411 Literature in "Gaceta de Arte": Domingo Luis Hernández Álvarez 412-439 "Gaceta de Arte": New Geographical Coordinates of Insular Nature: Jorge Aguiar Gil 440-449.

Published in: Henri Béhar, Shock Waves. New Essays on the Avant-garde, Lausanne, L'Age d'Homme, coll. "Mélusine Library", 2010, pp. 235-244.