ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on Scutenaire's contributions to Les Levres nues, a para-Surrealist journal founded by Belgian avant-gardistes who had broken away from the influence of the Parisian Surrealists in the post-war period. The aim was sets up a journal which would continue the pre-war revolutionary tradition of Surrealism as a social movement as well as a creative method — the rationale, interestingly, was that the Parisians had become too interested in Occultism rather than politics. During the period when Gil Wolman and Guy Debord read and contributed to Les Levres nues they described themselves, under the influence of Isidore Isou, as Lettristes, and then, having broken violently away from Isou, established themselves as International Letterists in the journal Potlatch before becoming International Situationists. The chapter seeks to rectify, is the link between Surrealism in its Belgian form as represented in Les Levres nues, and Parisian 'Situationism'.
