Word: surrealisme
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Belle de Jour. Arguably Luis Bunuel's most gripping study of eroticism, and certainly one of the old master's all-time achievements. This 1967 release documents the plunge of a stunning Catherine Deneuve into the abyss of masochism, highlighted by brilliantly filmed vignettes of surrealism and as bizarre plot...
Act Two takes place at the former hobo's seashore hotel. The fresh air revives the chorus: "Linger in the Lobby" is peppy, sung and danced with a snappiness that doesn't quit till the last bows. In the lobby, the chorus lingers and mingles with larger-than-life-size...
In great detail, the show is a dramatic reminder of how vital a contribution Dada and surrealism made to the modernist imagination. No painting or poetry had been so resolutely and bitterly antiauthoritarian. Dada was the child of trauma; the first World War, that cultural chasm, had revealed - in the...
The task, then, was to free language from its weight of inherited content, in the hope of freeing life itself. Chance, ambiguity, insult, nonsense, anything would serve, if it promised to break the crust. Above all, there was irony: the indifference of Duchamp, -the attacks on the social jugular perpetrated...
The essence of the surrealist enterprise - like that of the 19th century romantics - was to open new channels for the creative mind. It produced, above all, an art of subject matter - a trait transmitted to its American offspring, abstract expressionism. "Beauty will be erotic-veiled, explosive-fixed, magic-circumstantial, or...