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...anti-artistic spirit of Dada arose almost simultaneously in New York and Europe from the spiritual debris of World War I. It was baptized by two artistic types in Zurich who flipped open a dictionary at the word dada, French baby talk for "hobbyhorse." Incorporated into the more structural surrealist movement in 1924, it immortalized a species of hoopla and hubris that has become characteristic of modern American society. Dada's pranks and surrealist spectacles were revived in the 1960s as Happenings, which in turn have been commercialized by department stores, and ultimately popularized by flower children as love...
Mystery & Authority. Real. Estate Man Joseph Randall Shapiro, 63, president of the fledgling Museum of Contemporary Art (TIME, Nov. 3), is equally geared to the current scene. His private collection consists primarily of surrealist and brutalist works, about which he often writes and lectures (Francis Bacon's Man in the Blue Box, for example, was recently taken along to a Presbyterian church to illustrate a lecture on the existential human condition). Though Shapiro maintains that he has never paid more than $5,000 in cash for a painting (and seen some appreciate to as much...
...work of art not for its mystery but for what it tells him of the artist who made it. "You sometimes wonder," he jests, "whether you are buying the art or a piece of the artist." The Bergmans' home is jammed with several generations of Dadaist and surrealist works. Some are by unknown artists, others by famous ones, who are personal friends...
Bergman caught the collecting bug in 1954, soon met Surrealist Wilfredo Lam and through him acquired an interest in surrealism. He also acquired Roberto Malta's Onyx of Electro, a key exhibit in the survey of Dada and surrealism opening this week at Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
...SUrvival of the Wittiest Old artists rarely fade away. Instead, they keep producing, often with a wit and wisdom that grow stronger as the years pass by, despite the fact that their styles may seem passe. Two cases-in point are Rene Magritte and Max Ernst, remnants of the surrealist tide that swept Europe in the 1920s and 1930s. Ernst, at 76, is exhibiting his lat est sculptures at the lolas Gallery in Paris. Magritte, who died last August at 68, is being honored in his native Brussels with a retrospective that in cludes eight new sculptures designed before...