Word: surrealistes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...medium, beginning with Edward Steichen, proceeding through the epic or intimist nature poets (Edward Weston, Paul Strand, Ansel Adams) and finishing in an exponential growth of different styles in the '70s -Duane Michals' enigmatic fumetti, Paul Caponigro's monumental landscapes, and Jerry Uelsmann's surrealist montages. Meanwhile, LIFE and Look were the showcases for the documentary photographs: the picture magazines were their museum without walls, and it is now pitifully shrunk. To present the documentary photographer to a "serious" audience, an audacious venture has just opened in Manhattan: the International Center of Photography, or I.C.P...
...imagination--with barely a hint at the link to actual experience--she hoped to distill the purest state of love, or fear, or aloneness from them. By concentrating on private mental worlds--which Nin called "cities of the interior"--she aimed at poetic psychoanalysis. Bewildered critics tagged her a surrealist, while more aggressive readers accused her of grouping in thin air for the inexpressible and didn't even find anything to hang a label...
...graphics designer and visual consultant here making his feature-film debut. Bass knows a good deal about how to isolate a single image, how to place it and build on it for maximum effectiveness. There are sequences in Phase IV that seem to have been lifted intact from a surrealist's fever dream: giant anthills looming like pylons against a gloomy sky; a dead man's hand, unclenched, revealing ants crawling out of holes they have chewed in the palm...
...international publicity following the destruction of the first art exhibit apparently had an effect. Scores of KGB agents stood quietly by while more than 10,000 spectators inspected some 150 paintings done in a variety of contemporary styles, including abstract, surrealist, impressionist and pop. All of these have been expressly forbidden to Soviet artists, who are supposed to hew to the woodenly representational standards of socialist realism...
...equivalent of Andy Warhol's Campbell's soup can drew the kind of startled stares that pop art has been receiving in the West for more than a decade. Although organizers had promised that there would be no overtly anti-Soviet or religious art, there was one surrealist still life boldly titled Homage to Pasternak, and another artist caused an ideological stir by exhibiting a psychedelic portrait of Jesus. After taking a stroll through the exhibit, Poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko remarked: "I see some good pictures, some bad ones and some mediocre ones, but the most important fact...