Word: surrealistes
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...similarly diverse career. The French artist wrote newspaper columns, painted church murals, composed volumes of poetry, directed films and, of course, penned ,many plays. And like Lynch, Cocteau brought an intensely personal vision to his work, a vision which defies all labels. Cocteau has been called a Dadaist, surrealist and modernist, but in his work his quirky style can only Cocteauian...
...culture, or with the recent "high" culture of the '80s, at all. As the clippings pile up, one may expect to see many variations on these themes. One, common to both, is that the show has too many familiar works -- as though there were a slew of undiscovered Cubist, Surrealist or Pop masterpieces lurking out there, miraculously ignored by the world's museums...
...medieval and the century's teens virtually Pleistocene. The curators do their best with this, reprinting front pages of Parisian newspapers that Picasso, Braque and Gris cut their collage materials from, or hanging photographs of the kinds of shopwindow display that, they persuasively argue, reinforced the cult of the Surrealist object in the '20s. But the effort to put long-gone popular culture in a museum is like trying to resurrect an old perfume in a room...
...mannequin that Shapiro broke up in a fit of anger -- "I pulled it apart and just threw it around the room," he says to curator Deborah Leveton in the catalog interview. "It's a pretty aggressive piece." Indeed it is, almost childishly so, although its distant ancestor is a surrealist classic by Giacometti, Woman with Her Throat...
...RAY/BAZAAR YEARS. As these 140 works amply demonstrate, Man Ray bridged the worlds of surrealist art and fashion photography like no one else in this century. At New York City's International Center of Photography Midtown through...