Word: surrealisme
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Cabrini-Green consists of 23 high-rise buildings and 55 row houses, all packed onto a 70-acre wedge of Chicago just south of the trendy Old Town neighborhood. Even when the project opened 39 years ago, the neighborhood was a high-crime pocket. Today the median income is $4...
DIED. René Clair, 82, pre-eminent French director who used surrealism and satire to limn the absurdities of human behavior in such classic films as Paris Qui Don (1923), Entr'acte (1924), Le Million (1931) and A Nous la Liberte(1932); of a heart attack; in Neuilly, France...
"Our sense of time is different--there is a coincidence of time, a circular time." Fuentes adds that Latin American novelists' emphasis on surrealism and employment of ancient, regional symbolism and mythology stems party from this uneven modernization process, and a preoccupation with the past "which is always present."
One would also like to like the work of Jonathan Borofsky, but he makes it difficult. For several years now, Borofsky, 38, has been filling galleries with his stoned pictorial ramblings, large-scale doodles interspersed with logorrheic messages in script. What they may mean (assuming that these spurts of buckeye...
DIED. Julien Levy, 75, influential art dealer and writer whose gallery was a center during the 1930s and '40s for surrealism and neoromanticism, presenting the first New York exhibitions of such artists as Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, Arshile Gorky, Man Ray and Joseph Cornell; in New Haven, Conn.