Word: surrealistes
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...Buzzed Surrealist Editor Harris: "If fifty million monkeys with fifty million typewriters tapped for fifty million years, one of them would produce a Shakespeare sonnet. I hope MacAuley and Stewart have not produced such a phenomenon. It is not their claims of exposure but time [that] tells the story. Time will explain that a myth is sometimes greater than its creators...
This week New England's latest flowering produced a veritable rum blossom. Written in "implacable" 14-hour stretches during a four-month "retirement in the mountains of New Hampshire," Surrealist Painter Salvador Dali's Hidden Faces is the year's tipsiest first novel...
Salvador Dali, super-successful surrealist, explained-in glossy Town & Country -how he did it: ''I am quite probably the artist who works the hardest." Dali said he wrote his "long and boring" forthcoming novel in four New Hampshire months of '"fourteen implacable hours" of work a day. His heroine, Solange de Cleda, is a symbol of what he calls Cledalism-"pleasure and pain sublime in an all-transcending identification with the object...
...walls of the Baltimore Museum's Junior Gallery were covered by an iconography of the familiar world, seen by the children in very unfamiliar focus. Most of the pictures kept well within the bounds of childhood experience (animals, vehicles, houses, rooms) But some were well outside. One surrealist moppet had painted a huge cactus tree containing a human face, and surrounded by sunflowers surmounted by chickens and peacocks. There were three pictures of lovers on park benches. Art experts and child psychologists who were queried said that children paint such scenes because of unsatisfied curiosity: they do not understand...
Banned from the mails at week's end, without a hearing, was the magazine View, slick 75?quarterly devoted almost entirely to art with a capital A. The objected-to material: reproductions of 1) surrealist nudes by Leon Kelley, 2) Picasso's Le Minotaure (in a Manhattan gallery's advertisement). Poet-Editor Charles Henri Ford stood up to fight...