Word: surrealisme
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Of course, not all the photos in the show partake of surrealism. We still have a few descendants of the Ansel Adams-Minor White tradition, the makers of perfect, eloquent prints recording some aspect of nature with a lyrical gravity of inspection. Perhaps the best of them is Paul Caponigro...
Essays on surrealism, the mimetic faculty, Brecht and the Austrian polemicist Karl Kraus support Hannah Arendt's claim that Benjamin was the most important German critic between the world wars. His romantic attachment to anarchy and violence as messianic salvations may remind some readers of Norman Mailer at his...
To bring some poetry into painting. That was in. many ways one of the chief effects of the Surrealist movement launched in 1924 by Andre Breton's "Surrealist Manifesto." A pamphlet alone, of course, could not channel the direction of all creative artistic endeavor completely or all at once. Breton...
The art of Joan Miro, even today, reflects the cultural confusion in which Surrealism had its roots. At the Rolly-Michaux gallery in Boston aquatints and lithographs of Miro's, mainly from the last ten years, are on exhibit. These works, despite their optimistically bright colors, their fantasy and their...
For all the movie's slapstick escapades, it never turns into a Three Stooges picture. Director Robert Zemeckis' broad style frequently rises above silliness to be come a form of pop surrealism. The tip-off to his intentions occurs early on, when he shows us a mob of...