Word: surrealistes
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...along their accustomed lines-and with unhappy results. Two pages of Henry Miller's exhibitionist prose, a dozen lines of Kenneth Patchen's apocalyptic "self-expression" verse are all a reader needs to know forever the school of professional literary bohemianism. The shrill, barren exercises in surrealist freewheeling, the turgid moralizing of those poets who have retired to philosophical hermitages, and the vulgarity of the psychoanarchists-all these are dead letters...
...Cross, Gugel was chosen to do the job. The three he has finished so far are indistinguishable from those made 200 years ago. But he would rather illustrate his Catholicism in his own way. And now, at 37, he has the chance. He has been commissioned to do a surrealist altar triptych and Stations of the Cross for a tiny Catholic hill chapel in Bavaria...
...always a surrealist at heart," Gugel says, "When I was a child I drew all kinds of transformations. Things like Daphne turning into a tree, and Actaeon into a stag. Surrealism is a very beneficial revolution in painting. It results in conscious exploitation of elements which used to be overlooked because of bourgeois shame...
...would take a Freudian to detect what shame-free message Gugel has thus found in Cinderella, but churchgoers will be likely to find his surrealist chapel disturbing. By last week Gugel had completed the two side panels for the altar. One of them showed a ship built up from a thumb and forefinger keel, with its sail tattered and twisted about half a face. The title: "Resurrection" (see cut). The other panel, "Martyrdom," was even more obscure. It consisted of a mask, a bloody accordion, and some high-heeled shoes in the snow...
...strangest of its kind. There was hardly a recognizable landscape or embraceable nude to be seen. Said one headline: WITCHES' ORGY COVERS ART INSTITUTE WALLS. The directors of Chicago's usually middle-of-the-road Art Institute had gone all out with a survey of abstract and surrealist...