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PERSPECTIVE: Magician Maddox conjured up surreal ; The last of the Surrealists has been laid to rest - and he was a Brummie. Silvano Levy & Nikki Swan look back at his life
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PERSPECTIVE: Magician Maddox conjured up surreal ; The last of the Surrealists has been laid to rest - and he was a Brummie. Silvano Levy & Nikki Swan look back at his life
2005
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Special Branch, a wartime intelligence unit, raided the flat where the surrealist publication, Free Unions, Unions Libres, was being prepared and took away a hoard that included [Conroy Maddox]'s hard- hitting collages. They were kept under lock and key in police custody until the war had ended. Then, in 1945, he went on to live at 11 Highfield Road, Edgbaston, with the parents of Nick Mason, the drummer of Pink Floyd. When Conroy met his future wife, Nan Burton, he set up home first at 81 Islington Row, Five Ways and then at 29 Speedwell Road. It was there that he created a hub of surrealist activity, often having wild, allnight parties. Among the guests were the young Desmond Morris, who was studying at Birmingham University and George Melly. Maddox saw himself as having the social responsibility of revealing such scandals. During his 70 years as a surrealist, Maddox toiled against the very fabric of reason and brought dreams into waking life. His goal was never in doubt.
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