Word: surrealness
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Recently, a new development has underlined the need to abolish the death penalty. This is the tendency for capital cases to drag on for years and even decades, until a new class of convict has been created--the permanent resident of Death Row. The surreal horror of this kind of situation should be enough to convince anyone that the death penalty is creating far more suffering than it is preventing...
...years, he has been painting these forms-sun, moon, star, woman, man, birds, flowers, sparks. Of course he paints them in his own way-and they are instantly recognized the world over. Though he insists that he only draws what he sees, his images are usually a surreal shorthand. An asterisk denotes a star, a curlicue a snail, a cartoon figure with popeyes and a Minnie Mouse behind becomes a kind of Iberian Everyman. "I'm always in a state of dreaming," says Miró, suggesting that his night vision discerns what others cannot...
Manhattan's Gerhardt Liebmann, 39, recently exhibited a series of canvases that show nothing but bricks, forming endless cells or piled in heaps that stretch away to infinity. Their dreamlike, surreal character is conveyed by Liebmann's adroit deviations from strict perspective. The bricks at the upper edges of his canvases do not tilt in toward the vanishing point in the center as much as they should. Thus Liebmann creates the impression of an infinitely expanding sterile waste. The bricks also suggest the relentless monotony and cubicled isolation of big-city living, where, in Liebmann's opinion...
...Bogus' high quality. "California Plush" by graduate student Frank Bidart just misses being one of those six-page identity crisis -California -Cambridge poems; but Bidart's sincere, practically apologetic awkwardness saves it from banality. John L'Heureux seems a more accomplished poet. His "Three Awful Picnics" manipulates a playfully surreal death (of a man whose "head split open like a rotten cantaloupe and seven birds flew out") through three discordant, animated perspectives...
...catch what happens to time in Desolation Row. He presents a rambling view of the half real, half surreal things famous characters from books and fairy tales are doing. The tremendous feel for the immediacy of what happens Dylan gives us in the chronological one-after-another present tense. But actually the whole story is a Dylan-modified version of a letter he read "yesterday." "All these people that you mention. Yes I know them they're quite lame. I had to rearrange their faces and give them all another name." Dylan tells his correspondent that it's too difficult...