Word: surrealisme
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On the structure of 20th century religious thought, the works of Ingmar Bergman perch like gargoyles. Their gnostic faith belongs to no known dogma; their acrid doubt is too large to sit in the cool shade of existentialism. The Shame, latest of his grotesqueries, once again prays to a dead...
The worst horrors of the 20th century derive from politics or science or both. This was not always the case. For a millennium and a half the worst horrors were theological. The fear of hell and the hope of heaven gave shape to some of the greatest achievements of the...
Squeezed Syllables. Sinfonia, a 28-minute work for full orchestra and eight "amplified" singers, is pure surrealism, voiced in sound. The words of its text are employed as much for their acoustic qualities as for their semantic meaning. The result is a kind of anti-opera in which verbal and...
Died. Marcel Duchamp, 81, France's Grand Dada of art, whose iconoclastic paintings, "readymades" and other assemblages of the early 1900s became cryptic formulas for the future; in Neuilly, France. "An explosion in a shingle factory!" hooted a critic, and guards had to restrain angry art lovers when Duchamp...
But in the work of those last years, Grandville established a claim as an ancestor of surrealism. He experimented with mirror-image distortions and drew pictures of huge, unattached eyeballs. He split faces in two to suggest the war between the conscious and the sub conscious long before the terms...