All of the ephemera that is far too trivial to be bothered with elsewhere on this site or, depending on your point of view, a meta-commentary on it. This ephemera includes, but is not limited to art, music and literature. Most of the content here will be discussed in terms that are as abstract as possible, reality being a singularly overrated concept.
Tuesday, July 23, 2002
Mildly interesting review of a history of the surrealist movement. Oddly enough, the central point regarding surrealism was a very simple one made by Jonathan Meades, namely that surrealism is essentially a codification of the irrational and therefore represents a typology that has been freely applied throughout literature (hence the promince of Lewis Carroll as a surrealist writer), particularly as the discourse of madness has always had a significant role within romantic literature. Conversely, the surrealism of Breton and Dali represented a very historically specific movement mainly existing within Catholic states that was heavily influenced by both Marx and Freud. It was hardly surprising that such a movement would be limited (as was the case with vorticism and others of similar ilk), but that is not why surrealism retains its value.
