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...Deadpan Surrealist...
...IMAGES AND IDEAS OF RENE Magritte are known to millions of people who do not know him by name. So argues the art historian Sarah Whitfield in her catalog to the retrospective of 168 works by the great Belgian Surrealist that opens at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art this week, and she is certainly right. This accounts for the faint feeling of deja vu that even non- Magritteans sometimes get when looking at his work. Magritte died in 1967, but for the best part of a half-century his images -- or variants on them -- have been used...
Havel, born in 1935 and raised in a well-to-do bourgeois family, began as an absurdist playwright in the style of Ionesco or Pinter or Beckett. An attitude of surrealist paranoia turned out to be the right moral optic through which to see the Communist world clearly, and Havel had keen eyesight. Constricted as a playwright, he became a dissident. Imprisoned as a dissident, he became a symbol. Communism was brutal and stupid and corrupt. Havel was Czechoslovakia with brains -- the country's better self, its idealist, its moral philosopher, the visionary of "living in truth." When the Communist...
Your unlucky reviewer, Ms. Ashwini Sukthankar, could have done herself a service by reading a dictionary definition of surrealism before writing her review of Jet of Blood, as most of her witless and floundering criticism of both Artaud and Gammons is in fact an uneducated denunciation of the surrealist movement...
...fouled up on a far grander scale than her confusion, misunderstanding, sexual hangups and titillation and massacre of the English language and its syntax could ever explain. She went into Jet of Blood expecting to see Guys and Dolls. Her comments about acting and plot, when applied to a surrealist play, carry about as much weight as complaints about the temperature when reviewing an art show. Ms. S. had the opportunity to read the play and comment on how Gammons successfully or unsatisfactorally handled the demands of the script Artaud called "unstageable." Then maybe she could think...