Surrealism, a deep P influence, and V. again

[Mark Kohut]

I have had a chance to see a photography/film art exhibit that
will soon be in New York city and go to other cities. I recommend it modestly, cause it is a modest exhibit, imho.

Curator unified the show around surrealism in the 20-30's, in Europe,
mostly Paris. Words about the surrealists' artistic manifestos, of course,
apply to much of TRPs self-chosen writing goals---shattering the bourgeois
cultural certainties (which WW1 should have done to all as it did to the artists, they felt), the end of the belief that history was moving 'progressively', the use of outrageous and (wildly) juxtaposed images for satiric intent---"Un Chien Andalou", for example, with the ants on the palm and the slashed eyeball. (Thinking of V.'s impaling yet?)

Anyway, and the major reason for this post, is that what were evidently the two major art/literary magazines of the movement are featured. One called VU, the other Viola...which led me to understand, I think, why that
short -lived surrealism mag out of Greenwich Village NY around the time
TRP lived there, was called, simply, V, and has been thrown into the resonance bin re V.'s meanings.