Word: surrealist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...naive Americans were especially gifted at fantasy. The surrealist cat created by an unknown artist, looming hugely out of a sea of grass with a bird in its mouth and its eyes on future victims, is as haunting as Alice's Cheshire-and more terrifying. Another unknown painter imagined a fantastic city of medieval towers and Renaissance palaces approached by a steam-propelled sailing ship of the very latest type around 1850-a vision of Europe, perhaps, by an artist who knew it only in his dreams...