Word: surrealistes
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...refugees. The display ranged all the way from swooning sensuality (Nude Reclining, an oil by Moise Kisling) to attenuated, nihilistic preciosity (Boîte-en-Valise, an "object" by Marcel Duchamp). Between these bypaths lay a two-lane highway of abstraction and surrealism. Outstanding was 44-year-old French Surrealist Yves Tanguy's Un Lieu Oblique (An Oblique Place), a meticulous composition suggesting a segment of interstellar space strewn with broken propeller parts, spilt putty, the detached, heraldic bowsprits of unicorns...
Divorced. By Susanna Wilson Hare, 28, chic daughter of Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins (Mrs. Paul Caldwell Wil son), David Meredith Hare, 28, color photographer and surrealist sculptor; after seven years of childless marriage ; in Reno...
...learned to carry a sketch pad wherever he went-even when he ventured into Paris' high-kicking night life. Unlike many a French-influenced U.S. painter who works his way toward the abstract, Levi plunged early into abstractions and progressed back toward a sort of poetic realism with surrealist overtones. A slow worker who produces less than a dozen pictures a year, he finally got around to his first one-man Manhattan show just five years ago, when...
...Paul Eluard, tall, elegant Surrealist poet turned Communist, emerged as the principal literary figure of French resistance. Hunted by the Gestapo for his anti-Nazi pamphlets and clandestine magazine La Pensée Libre, he finally hid in an insane asylum where psychoanalysts and nurses secretly tended Maquis wounded...
...Fate), radical novelist, wrote one book (published in Switzerland as Les Noyers de l'Altembourg), lived with the Maquis and F.F.I., became a colonel. Wounded, captured, liberated in time's nick during the invasion, thin, nervy Malraux is now fighting at the front. ¶ Jean Cocteau, famed Surrealist specialist in films and plays, had trouble when collaborationists released rats and tear gas in the theater where one of his plays was put on; they also punched his nose when he refused to salute a pro-German parade...