"Victorian surrealism"

[ruudsaurins at aol.com]

Hoy! Hoy!
      Duchamp, in my humble opinion, is the one of the most "pynchonian" characters of the era, evidently possessing an polymathic and encyclopedic knowledge that his art only hinted at.  It would be a delight to see Pynchon impart some literary flesh to his reputation.
                                                                        truly,
                                                                        ruud     
 
 
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From: mcquaryq at comcast.net
To: pynchonoid at yahoo.com
Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 7:17 PM
Subject: Re: "Victorian surrealism"


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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