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This long, bitter, muscular novel, by the bitter author of The Bells of Basel and Residential Quarter, Louis Aragon-onetime Dadaist ringleader, left-wing journalist, soldier of World Wars I and II-begins in a false brightness: In 1889 a tremulous dream of hope hung over the world, a miracle world of science, progress, peace. Of course there was always a spatter of gunfire somewhere far off, faint rumbles and stenches from below. But people hoped that all the remaining corruption and debris would be swept away in the magic fin de siècle, that the birth...
...what victims were in the ruins. They wondered first about trapped U. S. citizens, trapped British subjects, French politicians, generals, diplomats, finally got around to wondering about French writers. In particular, they wondered what had become of Aviator-Novelists Andre Malraux, Antoine de Saint Exupery, Surrealist Novelist Louis Aragon, Dadaist Cut-up Jean Cocteau. Thanks to the human dislocation, the censorship, the splitting of France into occupied and unoccupied areas, it was almost impossible to find...
...Ansel Adams, Edward Weston. Picked to show the tremendous variety of methods and subjects used by cameramen of the past 97 years, the exhibition contained prints from hoary calotype* and wet-plate negatives, documentaries by the Civil War's camerace Matthew Brady, sentimental Victorian landscapes, modern news photographs, dadaist shadowgraphs by Hungarian-born Moholy-Nagy and U. S. Modernist Man Ray. Surprised visitors found that some of photography's finest workmanship was very old stuff...
...culminating in the sculptural Three Graces (see cut) of 1924. Year later his classicism came to a violent end with his painting, The Three Dancers (see cut), which left not one line of The Three Graces on another. Picasso's subsequent work has been a jumble of abstractionist, dadaist, expressionist and surrealist elements...
Students of surrealism rank with Founder Breton and converted Dadaist Max Ernst, several practitioners of equal or greater importance. There is the able Italian Giorgio de Chirico, who, besides his familiar studies of prancing horses and Roman columns, likes to paint surrealist views of long deserted streets in dream cities, adding to one work a startling note by carefully painting realistic tea biscuits on the end of a painted crate. There is Philadelphia-born Man Ray, who is not only an able painter but manages to imbue Rayograph pictures of bits of wire, corks and lumps of sugar with exactly...