Word: surrealism
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...There's a huge showcase full of vases, dishes and stemware commissioned by personages ranging from Emperor Mutsuhito of Japan to Jazz Age entertainer Josephine Baker. In one room, a giant candelabra ordered by Czar Nicholas II stands next to chairs designed for Indian maharajas. Another features a surreal canopy (pictured) painted by French artist Gérard Garouste, inspired by the symbols of alchemy: air, water, earth and fire. Throughout the museum, Starck contrasts the sumptuous and the simple. In the tableware showroom, for instance, bare concrete walls surround a 13-m-long display table full of crystalline astonishments...
...surreal Resurrection: the all-important Christian instant, but garbled, like a favorite song issuing from the bottom of a deep well. And yet according to the new book Lost Christianities: The Battle for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew, by Bart Ehrman, it was Holy Writ for several centuries to some early Christian communities in the Middle East. The passage comes from something called the Gospel of Peter. You probably haven't heard of Peter because by A.D. 350 church fathers had tarred it as heresy, along with dozens of other early Scriptures with names like the Gospel...
...most famous work, “Fauna Secreta,” Fontcuberta created stunningly realistic documentation of a surreal host of Darwin-defying plants and animals, all dutifully photographed, scientifically named and explained by the fictitious German biologist Dr. Peter Ameisenhaufen, one of Fontcuberta’s alter egos. While “Fauna Secreta” has since toured many well-known art museums such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, it was first exhibited at the National Museum of Natural History in Madrid as a genuine scientific catalog. With no posted indication that this exhibit...
...Very surreal. Hugh has nuances down that even I had forgotten. Tiny things like sticking his tongue out a little when he's singing a song...
...design, courtesy of Andrew D. Boch ’03, is fantastic. His set is concretely evocative of real-world urban decay (the party cups littering the chunks of prefab house that dominate the stage give the setting a sort of frat-house feel) and yet still very surreal; the building crew have put considerable effort into this set, and it shows. It also combines with high-end costuming by Gisli Palsson ’04 to create an ambience that is all the more plausible for its anachronism...