Word: surrealist
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...Cantor also plays a Hollywood guide whose lifelong tragedy, cheating him of a screen career, is his resemblance to Eddie Cantor. This damaged soul lives among others of Hollywood's lumpenproletariat in Gower Gulch, a sort of surrealist Hooverville. Eventually the true Cantor is kidnapped by Gower Gulch Indians who adopt him into the tribe for the benefit of a LIFE photographer (flatteringly misrepresented by Joan Leslie). At the climax of the Monster Benefit the false Cantor impersonates the man he hates most in the world, the true Cantor. Meanwhile the true Cantor suffers as he has suffered...
Englishmen were offered a long vista last week. From London Bridge they could look through an open door and see the Statue of Liberty. This surrealist panorama, in eight colors, was the cover of the first issue of a brand-new digest-size monthly magazine called Transatlantic (price: one shilling). Its purpose: to give the British a candid, unpropagandized look...
Some participants on the schedule: Belgian appeals court President Henri Rolin (whom Hitler blitzed out); Italian Art Critic Lionello Venturi (whom Mussolini hounded out); Spanish Scholar Alfredo Mendizabal (whom Franco locked out); France's Surrealist Andre Masson, Mathematician Jacques Hadamard, Playwright Henri Bernstein, Novelist Julian Green; America's Philosopher James Bissett Pratt (Williams), Poet-Journalist James Rorty, Scholar Henri Maurice Peyre (Yale), Poet Critic John Peale Bishop...
Erudite Director Alfred Hamilton Barr of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art once asked this question, writing in the days (1930) when the surrealist movement direly needed an apologist in the U.S. Last fortnight, Barr's Museum acquired one of the most important early surrealist paintings. The picture was 55-year-old Italian Giorgio de Chirico's Delights of the Poet, painted...
...When Surrealist Salvador Dali (TIME, Dec. 28) has painted portraits in the past, the results have rarely been recognizable as human beings. But last week his first portrait show at Manhattan's Knoedler galleries proved that Dali, when confronted by society ladies, can make faces look as vapidly human as any other slick artist can. Garnished with the carefully strange surrealist fantasy which Salvador Dali affects, some of his canvases could pass for society magazine covers...