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...comradeship with a generation of gifted, irascible young .intellectuals and artists whose loathing of that "whole immense Schweinerei of the imbecilic war" crossed the frontiers of Europe: Jean Arp and Tristan Tzara in Zurich, George Grosz, John Heartfield and Raoul Hausmann in Berlin, Kurt Schwitters in Hannover, André Breton and his growing circle in Paris...
...taste, John was certainly a minor artist. He sinned by missing the historical bus. The peculiar complexities, doubts and unfamiliarities of living in the 20th century had radically altered the historical sense of a whole generation of artists. Pound and Joyce no less than Picasso, Stravinsky or André Breton. John, however, continued to paint like a swashbuckling hedonist. His drawings of the figure had dash and virtuosity, even in his student years at the Slade School. He was, in the view of friends like Sir William Orpen, the inordinately successful painter, the best draftsman to work in England since...
...each member of the group was remarkably evident. Their stage presence, however, belied their virtuosity. The intervals between songs were filled with too much shuffling of feet, too many nervous jokes, and too little explanation of the origin and meaning of each song, with its Welsh or Irish or Breton lyrics. The program was musically weak only when the group moved from the folk-rock format to an attempt at hard rock. The attempt was shrill and unpleasant...
...social experience could be rendered in painting and sculpture-has disappeared. That certainty about the inclusiveness and eloquence of art was shared to some extent by every figure in the heroic years of modernism from (roughly) 1900 to 1940, by Joyce no less than by Picasso, by Matisse and Breton as well as by Stravinsky, Braque, Pound and Magritte. When it faltered, art suffered a slow leakage and underwent that loss of possibility and (worse) necessity that nearly everyone involved with its production, inspection, distribution and consumption feels today...
...MAGRITTE by René Passeron. 93 pages. J. Philip O'Hara. $15. "Only the marvelous is beautiful," Poet André Breton once wrote, and René Magritte's paintings make that point. Since most of the excellent reproductions in this book cover entire pages without frames of white space, the reader is thrust into the Belgian surrealist's enigmatic world. An immense rock floats in the sky, a bottle becomes a carrot, a coffin sits on a wall. Mercifully, the text is minimal, for Magritte's content is captivating beyond words...