Word: surrealist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That Obscure Object of Desire is Buñuel's free-flowing meditation on Mathieu's fall from bourgeois grace, and like so many films by this great surrealist director, it is art of the most subversive kind. Buñuel wants the audience to see the world as he ultimately forces Mathieu to see it-as an irrational state where logic is a worthless tool. In Obscure Object the director never bothers to explain Conchita's stubborn celibacy or any of his story's other absurdities, for he does not believe that any explanations exist...
...corpse" of Corpse and Mirror alludes to a surrealist game like "consequences," in which a piece of folded paper was passed around, with each player adding a section of drawing to the unseen one before. The game produced weird and poetic monsters on paper. Johns' interest is only in the folds: the hatchings repeat, mirror and reverse one another. It is only a formal device and, compared with what one has learned to expect from the earlier Johns, it is a weak raison...
...partly reconstituted here, with 19 of its more aggressively modern works, including Duchamp's then infamous Nude Descending a Staircase), and the absorption of cubism by New York, which was itself, as the Dadaist Picabia remarked, "the only cubist town in the world." And so on to the surrealist artists who, sponsored by Peggy Guggenheim in the '30s and '40s, helped provoke the climactic movement of the early American avantgarde: abstract expressionism...
...DEMANDS the musicians make on the listener's untrained ear are substantial but not unreasonable. Consider "Ode to the Apocalypse," which is, in Kushnick's words, a "surrealist love song" about two lovers spending a last night together in the face of the apocalypse; it has seven verses, each of a diffegent mood, meter, and key. It also contains many of the purposely electic elements of Kushnick's "surrealistic neo-class avant garde jazz/rock and roll" music: in this case, a basically straightforward key progression beginning and ending in G minor, and a Beethoven-like hand-over-hand arpegio accentuated...
...express the mood or emotional feelings he wishes, Kushnik paints a rainbow of "styles" into his songs--from the satirically self-mocking "A M-pop-hit-single" style of "Electric Eyes of Love" to a surrealist piano accompaniment of a laughing box, called "Opus 354: Sonata for Piano and Laughing Box." Or take the sentimental favorite. "New York City," which consists of three stoccato piano chords followed by a shout of get out of the way, you fuck." Bruce fittingly calls his music "Surrealist Neo-Classic Avant Garde Jazz/Rock and Roll...