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...wildly unpredictable outpourings. From meticulously researched historical sagas to dystopian futurism (Kisses of the Enemy), parallel universes (The Last Love Story) and magic realism (The Island in the Mind), the thrice Booker Prize?nominated novelist has surfed genres seemingly at random. Hall is an automatic writer in the Surrealist sense, giving vent to his dark subconscious. So it hardly comes as a surprise when the author stops to admire a graffiti-scribbled wall, against which Time's photographer decides to shoot him. "The way I work, anything that looks like a plan you can be damn sure it's actually...
...looking for a better understanding of the dream images and surrealist constructs in the Luis Bunuel movies shown in the Harvard Film Archive last month (“Un Chien Andalou,” anyone?), the famed auteur’s autobiography might not be satisfying...
...book is a surprisingly easy read—Bunuel’s writing style is very different from his far murkier cinematic directing. He still finds clever ways to incorporate into his prose dream images, symbols, and allegorical elements that are meant to shock, with surrealist intention. However, Bunuel the writer cannot as easily confuse the audience by abruptly cutting scenes...
...places the 1992 painted interior, Spartan Space, inspired by Modernist De Stijl furniture design, amidst early white abstract works, making plain Arkley's influences. In the following room, he artfully arranges a 1983 suite of street-culture canvases, Tattooed: Head, Hands, Penis, Feet, in the form of a Surrealist game of Exquisite Corpse, making the connection to Arkley's student days at Prahran College...
Even better, Suleiman notes, it’s also entertaining. “I love anything that has humor in it. And surrealist work, even while it’s shocking sometimes, violent…there’s always this sort of explosive humor,” she says...