Word: surrealistes
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...carpets and tapestries. But of late no one wanted to buy tapestries; they were too expensive and their designs were too fussy. People no longer needed them to hang over doors and windows to keep out drafts, or to cheer barnlike castle halls. Now, a former cubist and surrealist painter named Jean Lurçat has given Aubusson a new lease on life...
...like many another aging dictator, Crump considers himself a humanitarian and public benefactor, prefers not to remember the boisterous past. He loves to discuss the glories of Memphis, and is as sensitive as a surrealist painter to the slightest criticism...
...Surrealist. By last week Crump's power was so complete, so zealously guarded, that opposition and disloyalty were rare. Few Memphis citizens ever spoke out against him. Sensible men who wished to enter politics visited the boss, asked his permission, accepted the inevitable quietly if he refused. His chief lieutenants, like Mayor Walter Chandler and District Attorney William Gerber, passed on Crump doctrine without the slightest deviation...
Many a paunchy, jowly citizen of U.S. suburbia, when he thinks of his youth, remembers Alice Prin. For Alice, with the heavy purple rouge over the surrealist green powder, Alice, with the bright crimson cupid bow hiding her thin upper lip and the spit curl embellishing her low forehead, was the toast (to put it delicately) of Paris in the days when Expatria infested the Left Bank...
That's the way Radio Paris started its midnight program. The long-haired doubletalk-Dada love poetry and surrealist verse by Tristan Tzara, André Breton, Paul Eluard, Salvador Dali and Louis Aragon-went on for 15 minutes...