Word: surrealisme
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In a sense, her paintings are like the desert itself, where there is no apparent middle ground: everything is either far or near, held in a hallucinatory clarity. In O'Keeffe's tender, expanded details of Jimson weed, desert roses, shingles and pebbles, a generation used to psychedelics...
An old paddle steamer with high, spindly funnels lies composedly beached in a red desert. Saplings enclose it; years ago the river vanished. From a circus cage on wheels, a bearded paterfamilias glowers, serenaded by a man in tails (on cornet), a bus boy (French horn), a girl in evening...
The classic elements of youth and age, jealousy and revenge may seem better suited to opera than to modern film. But Buñuel recognizes no visual or emotional barriers. His scenario seems, rhythmically, to have been composed on the guitar. It traverses wit and melancholy, surrealism and truth without...
At a time when the impulses of surrealism were everywhere enacting a loud rage against aesthetics, insulting whatever vestiges were left of art, the temptation must have been to succumb or to fall silent. What poets like Popa proposed was no less than a program of animalism, in which the...
Gabriel Garcia Márquez spent the first eight years of his life in Aracataca, a steamy banana town not far from the Colombian coast. "Nothing interesting has happened to me since," he has said. His experiences there were eventually transformed into a tenderly comic novel, just published in the...