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Trans-Europ Express is a spoof of the spoof-suspense films presented in the Robbe-Grillet manner-which is to say that plot, character and motivation are kept at considerably more than arm's length. Strictly speaking, there are no characters at all, except Author-Director Robbe-Grillet, Producer Samy Helfon and a female assistant, played by Robbe-Grillet's wife Catherine. These three gather in a compartment of the Trans-Europ Express en route from Paris to Antwerp...
More often than not, his works joke about the gallery scene. On the floor repose a dozen constructions made of impure but somehow weirdly poetic materials: rope, rocks, logs, old felt and even a few potatoes. They are put together with the purest of professional skill, and spoof everything from minimal art to maximum drip. On the walls hang dreamlike, deft pen-and-watercolor landscapes, depicting logs, brooms, brushes and other oddments, poking fun at the high turnover in art vogues, or the foibles of collectors. Modern Sculpture With Weakness combines a log nearly chopped through, a plastic wheel with...
...solution was to lampoon 17th and 18th century composers. Schickele avoided trying to spoof modern music, which he thinks is beyond satire; parodies of contemporary pieces "sound just like good contemporary pieces." Another solution was to write music for films (Crazy Quilt) and record al bums (Joan Baez, Buffy Sainte-Marie). An enemy of the idea that every piece has to be "a big deal," he composed deliberately casual chamber works for parties and coffeehouses. Mostly for his own amusement, he wrote ragtime piano pieces and rock 'n' roll songs...
...this country. One of the best is Job Sanders' Impressions, which uses Paul Klee paintings as "points of departure" for seven vignettes (set to music by American Composer Gunther Schuller) that capture both the painter's economy and his wit. There is sexy balletic humor in a spoof of Arab amour that features sinuous ballerina Willy de la Bije as the most languid odalisque ever to scratch herself where it itches. Most ambitious American entry is Glen Tetley's The Anatomy Lesson, which takes as its starting point Rembrandt's famous painting of the white-ruffed...
Like the western, the international spy story usually falls into one of two categories: the Spoof or the Morality Play. A Dandy in Aspic offers a little of one and a lot of the other. The anti-hero has his moments of fun during a few idyllic interludes in the percales with some warm-blooded British birds; the rest of the time he is trapped in a plot as inexorable as fate...