Word: surrealisme
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Your unlucky reviewer, Ms. Ashwini Sukthankar, could have done herself a service by reading a dictionary definition of surrealism before writing her review of Jet of Blood, as most of her witless and floundering criticism of both Artaud and Gammons is in fact an uneducated denunciation of the surrealist movement...
THE VIRGIN MOLLY. A soldier of dubious sexual orientation gives birth in this off-Broadway blend of bawdy barracks humor, blasphemy and brilliant surrealism.
That poignant exchange is at the moral heart of Marvin's Room, an unflinching yet surprisingly funny play about illness, physical and mental, that opened off-Broadway this month after runs in Chicago and Hartford. Playwright Scott McPherson, 32, has an original voice, balanced between sentiment and surrealism, and a...
Melville is most successful when she adheres to the commonplace. "Eat Labba and Drink Creek Water," for example, does not pretend to be anything more than nostalgia thinly disguised as fiction. Its wistful, reminiscent mood makes for good reading. "The Girl with the Celestial Limb," on the other hand, is...
Seurat was a brilliant and highly self-conscious metteur en scene. His landscapes often possess the sense of anticipation one associates with an empty stage. (Hence they were a powerful influence on De Chirico, and on Surrealism generally.) Nowhere is this more piercing than in the large study for the...