Word: surrealisme
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Parts of Education of the Girlchild--such as one section of swirling white-veiled figures mesmerized by the masked idol "Ancestress"--feel like ritual, reflections of the "primordial reality" Monk mentioned Saturday. Yet the total work is not the translation of primitive dance into modern forms. Monk seems to have...
Perry finds some arresting images to underscore his theme. Beautiful Navajo rugs are spread out for an airing under the big sky as a cowboy works them over with a weirdly out-of-place vacuum cleaner; a brand-new Lincoln auto is pumped full of slugs from an ancient buffalo...
Synthetic Desperation. Schlesinger and Screenwriter Waldo Salt collaborated previously on Midnight Cowboy, and The Day of the Locust has much the same mood of sentimental surrealism. Both films treat rather bizarre subjects in a comfortably slick fashion, so that nothing becomes very real or threatening. All decadence is decorative, all...
THE CAST DOES a more than competent job of keeping Rabe's sometime disjointed work llowing smoothly through moments of both absurdist comedy and high dramatic tension. Some of the credit belongs to director Warren Browner, who had chosen to de-emphasize the play's surrealism and treat it more...
In this bleak landscape, there are a few interesting outcroppings. One is a kind of surrealism that owes more to Hieronymus Bosch than to Salvador Dali. The best examples, currently at the Aberbach Gallery, are the works of Miodrag Djuric Dado, a Yugoslav painter who works in France. His L...