Paul Nougé
Belgium (1895—1967)
Trained as biochemist, Nougé started to spread his ideas as co-editor of the magazine Correspondance, with Camille Goemans and Marcel Lecomte, and founded the first Belgian Communist Party. In 1902 he met the French Surrealists, such as Breton, Aragon, and Éluard. In 1927 he developed a different stream of Surrealism, less a doctrine and more an attitude: he founded the Belgian Surrealist Goup with Goemans, Magritte, Mesens and Souris. The following year he started the magazine Distances. In 1956 he published Histoire de ne pas rire, a collection of essays written over 30 years. In 1966 he completed his poetry collection L’Expérience, experimenting with language, words and phonetics.
The viewers (Les spectateurs)
Original photography / Gelatin silver print / 18.9 x 19 cm / 1930
Magnetic table, poet's tomb (Table aimantée, tombeau du poète)
Original photography / Gelatin silver print / 18.9 x 18.9 cm / 1929
Cut eyelashes (Cils coupés)
Original photography / Gelatin silver print / 18.9 x 19 cm / 1929
The revealing arm (Le bras révélateur)
Original photography / Gelatin silver print / 18.8 x 18.8 cm / 1929
Marie
Journal bimensuel pour la belle jeunesse / Bi-monthly journal / 24.2 x 32.3 cm / Bruxelles, 1926-1927
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Subversion des images
Illustrated book / 12 x 19 cm / Bruxelles, 1968
Murmur wall (Mur murmure)
Original photography / Gelatin silver print / 19 x 18.9 cm / 1930
The juggler (La jongleuse)
Original photography / Gelatin silver print / 18.9 x 18.6 cm / 1930