Word: surrealisme
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Big difference, though. The domestic surrealism of John Irving's novel, a sort of tragicomic You Can't Take It with You, surrenders to the discipline of cinema narrative only after a struggle. His characters operate on obsession and whim ("I'm a grizzly bear!" "I'...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE once described Aime Cesaire as a poet who "snatched" surrealism from the Europeans and turned it against them. One of the best-known Black Francophones, Cesaire not only assimilated the dominant culture to attack it eventually, but he transcended the physical and psychological ruins of colonialism and...
Until now, rock mockery on the grand scale pretty much began and ended with the Beatles. A Hard Day's Night was in part a joke documentary, while Help! functioned as both parody and prophecy of MTV'S slick surrealism, Spinal Tap forfeits the good will associated with...
The death last week of Joan Miró, at 90, was a vivid reminder of the antiquity of modernism. The old surrealist, whose work was once so startling to received taste (a half-century ago, you did not give paintings titles like Two Figures Standing Before a Pile of Excrement...
What Miró did with this fund of imagery after he moved to Paris in 1919 marked his emergence. Miró did not need groups. He became a surrealist because surrealism needed him; it had plenty of poets but no great formal artist (as distinct from vivid dream illustrators like...