Word: surrealisme
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Ramble in Reality. "When the program first started," recalls sometime Adman Funt, "we used to just ramble in reality." But gradually the show got more complicated and developed a kind of comic-strip surrealism. A stooge would enter a florist's shop, order orchids and then eat them to...
The Trial Begins, by Abram Tertz. Pseudonymously signed and smuggled from Russia, this remarkable work of socialis surrealism bitterly mocks the monolithic state with its Soviet Organization Men, its Bolshy bitches and addled Utopian dreamers, suggesting among other things that under the Communist icecap, the Russian spirit still lives.
Cancer Sticks. The Trial Begins is classed as "socialist surrealism'' by the editors of Encounter, where it first appeared in English last January. The label is just. Part of the complex plot is focused on Marina, a Bolshy bitch who is married to Globov, a public prosecutor, and...
From those early years on, Italian painting fluctuated wildly between violence and serenity. Even as the futurist wave gathered momentum, Modigliani began painting his delicately attenuated figures, and Italy's art moved on through Giorgio de Chirico's dream-like surrealism, the almost eerie quiet of Giorgio Morandi...
The Tenth Man. Paddy Chayefsky finds new material in a Long Island synagogue, when a mentally sick and abandoned girl is returned to life by ancient rites, as surrealism mixes with Freud, demonology with farce.