Word: subconsciouses
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Genghis Cohn, a Yiddish music-hall comedian, is on his last stage. The stage is Auschwitz, and his audience is a German firing squad. But he seizes the opportunity for a last punch line. He turns his naked rump to the executioners and says: "Kush mir in tokhes!," which in...
The unity of color and form is "Forest, Sun, Birds" is reversed and turned to eery, inexplicable horror in many of the Dada and Proto-Surrealist works, and to humor in others. "Le Jeune Prince" and "The Swan is Very Peaceful," made of pasted photoengravings, combine seemingly incoherent images to...
Ernst, in his own writings, returns again and again to a strangely fascinating sentence: "Enter, enter, have no fear of being blinded. . . ." He seems to say--don't be afraid to face disturbing images, don't be afraid of the subconscious they provoke. The show is certainly worth entering, but...
GREAT comic plots, whatever the media, employ a superstructure of sometimes infinite complexity resting on a few simple premises and motivations. Through an induced preoccupation with the superstructure rather than the foundation, consequences many times removed from their causes are made to combine almost chemically into a facade which distracts...
Through this peculiar twisting of sight and time, cuts sound--dialogue and music--clear, straight-forward. But sound too serves the ambiance of Dream which Desire seeks to recreate. The six bits of dialogue don't untangle the plot or deepen the characters. After all, the vocabulary of the subconscious...