Word: toye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chabrolian high-style: bored and restless, willful and given to practical jokes. Chris thinks nothing of using his body to promote money from his wife or stealing from her purse, and Paul destroys a television set in a fit of rage after having terrified a dinner party with a toy mechanical mouse...
...connotations of handling a wife and mistress. We must assume at this point that somewhere in Chris's soul he feels all security begin to crumble. But rather than enter either house, metaphorically to solve his many problems, he walks to a pond where he sits watching his toy yachts, retreating like Norman Bates in Psycho into his private thoughts...
...room, 200-year-old stone farmhouse behind it which serves Miró as an annex, are crammed with his new paintings and sculptures. Among them stand the found objects that furnish at once a touchstone to reality and the impetus to further dreams: a child's toy ladybug, a rock with an owl's face drawn on it, the skeleton of a bat, the mummified body of a cat, a twisted wagon tongue, a piece of the rudder of a fishing boat...
...toy balloon...
...Mexico, graves are still decorated with candy skulls and toy skeletons. These are afterward given to the children to play with or to eat. For a tableau of hell (opposite). Girard combined bread-and-sugar diablos from Ecuador, plaster devils from Bolivia, pottery Satans from Venezuela, and unpainted wood grotesques from the Mexican town of Erongarícuaro...