Surrealism, a deep P influence, and V. again

[Mark Kohut]

Daniel wrote:
I recall Dali's 'critical paranoia'...?

I din't, probably never encountering it, BUT it is a fine, fine phrase, ain't it? Particularly re TRP and particularly in distiguinshing tween 'critical paranoia' and the 'everything connects' often posiitive kind. 



--- On Sun, 9/13/09, Daniel Cape <daniel.cape at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Daniel Cape <daniel.cape at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Surrealism, a deep P influence, and V. again
> To: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>, "Brad Andrews" <braden.andrews at gmail.com>
> Date: Sunday, September 13, 2009, 3:07 PM
> I recall Dali's 'critical
> paranoia'...?
> 
> 2009/9/14 Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>:
> > 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.
> >
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