"Victorian surrealism"

Steven mcquaryq at comcast.net
Sun Sep 17 20:17:49 CDT 2006


	Well, Andre Breton, the would-be 'father' of the movement was a  
moron, an egotist,  a boring fake.  Imo.  That he had the say-so over  
who belonged and who didn't has always struck me as a victory of the  
small over the large.  I don't go for Surreal like I used to either  
-- used to love Ernst like I said before, but the most important and  
the best artist of the period was Duchamp, who combined sex and  
mechanics way before Pynch or Ballard.  His final work is in the  
Philadelphia Art Museum (a whole room devoted to him) right across  
the Del. River from me and when we first moved here I wouldn't go  
there without gazing into that dark chamber for a while...

	...as spread thighs are to the libertine --


On Sep 17, 2006, at 9:03 PM, pynchonoid wrote:

> I'm not as fond of surrealist art as I was when I was
> in college - realized that when I saw the big
> retrospective at the Pompidu Centre on a birthday trip
> to Paris a few years ago, amazing stuff,
> thought-provoking, disturbing some of it, but I didn't
> respond to that visual sensibility the same way I did
> when I was younger. I wasn't even tempted to buy the
> exhibit catalog, which I often do if it's  a
> well-made, beautiful book. I still enjoy the literary
> surrealists - on that trip I read and enjoyed Aragon's
> le Paysan de Paris.  I like the way they tap into
> dreams and other experiemental approaches, too.

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