Word: surreal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from its chief virtue: it fashions hypnotic images of disorder to convey the sense of a disordered world. But the essence of dramatic art, as of all art, is to impose order on chaos. Flawed, shapeless, often inarticulate, the theater of the absurd nonetheless does generate excitement. In its surreal, evocative way, it tries to grapple with the way things are now, with the current condition of man, the creature of the Fall and the fallout...
...story, visually and dramatically. He injects the outre in the form of a headmaster who is three feet tall and a drawing that comes to life, and he slants his scenario so that the children win. Still, he never departs far enough from normal experience to enter the surreal, and this is precisely what makes one feel that a dream has become real, for it is the nature of most dreams to distort waking life only slightly and make it bizarre without making it totally unrecognizable...
...were wooden moons and seas by Max Ernst, a geometric Anthony and Cleopatra by Philadelphia-born Man Ray, a couple of dreamy street scenes by Italy's Giorgio de Chirico. Among the younger artists, none were equal in quality, and some seemed to be more action painters than surreal. Robert Rauschenberg's Bed -sheets, pillow and quilt daubed with paint-and Jasper Johns's Target, with its anatomical sculptures, including a penis, were merely repulsive...
...novel begins. Instead of depicting love and marriage, the U.S. writer customarily projects a spectral landscape dominated by death, pursuit and flight. The U.S. novel does not derive its power from skill, according to Fiedler, or from its vaunted realism (from Poe to Nathanael West, it is often surreal), but from something like Jung's "collective unconscious...