A Simple, Desultory Philippic: Surrealism


This is (approximately) the hundredth anniversary of the development of surrealism, the art movement that rattled the intelligentsia from 1924 to some vague point during World War II. Surrealism impacted most forms of creative art, even cinema. Famously, three [in]famous movies, the Cremaster Cycle. Although a girlfriend dragged WC to the first of the three…