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...taste revolution proved successful, and today the fractured visual logic of Un Chien Andalou can be found in Vogue graphics and on MTV. For the surrealists, the price of victory was high: acceptance by the hated bourgeoisie. Buñuel must have sighed in agreement when his friend Andre Breton noted that, alas, no one could be scandalized any more...
Formidably acute and full of zest for life, she found no event too humble for her observation: haymaking, a ramble in the woods, the delight of fresh Breton butter. At the same time she produced brilliant set pieces of aristocratic life: Fouquet's trial and imprisonment on dubious evidence; the suicide of the maitre d'hotel when fish ordered for the King's banquet failed to arrive; the execution of a marquise for mass murder...
...child. It was one of the master's few unoriginal remarks Virginia Woolf, rereading Nicholas Nickleby in 1939, noted."Dickens owes his astonishing power to make characters alive to the fact that he saw them as a child sees them." And in his 1924 Surrealist Manifesto, André Breton declared, "Childhood is the nearest to true life...
...French poet Andre Breton, leader of the surrealist movement, once defined surrealism as the juxtaposition of the familiar with the fantastic. As TIME correspondents moved through the strange netherworld of the arms trade for this week's cover story, they reflected on their own surrealist experiences - sometimes comical, other times ominous - of encountering weapons both familiar and fantastic, in places both ordinary and exotic. TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs recalled watching a multiple rocket launcher known as a "Stalin organ" being unloaded from a Soviet ship at Luanda harbor in 1975 during the civil war in Angola. To his surprise...
There were, of course, many degrees of intensity under the wide shadow of realism. Painters of rural life, like Jules Breton, idealized rather more than their urban counterparts. There was a lengthy tradition of peasant decor in French art, and artists tended to see the country as a happy escape from the grinding realities of the city-the great exception being Millet, with his unfaltering sense of the earth and its rigors, and the stupors it enforced on those who worked it. One may doubt whether the women's work of gleaning after harvest was normally as dignified...