Five Surreal Works of Fiction You Probably Haven’t Read… and Slaughterhouse-Five ‹ Literary Hub

Clip source: Five Surreal Works of Fiction You Probably Haven’t Read… and Slaughterhouse-Five ‹ Literary Hub Five Surreal Works of Fiction You Probably Haven’t Read… and Slaughterhouse-Five Isabel Waidner Recommends Megan Milks, Jess Arndt, Kurt Vonnegut, and MoreBy Isabel Waidner February 13, 2023 My novel, Sterling Karat Gold, performs the real-life effects of governmental control and state violence on marginalized people—and it does so by recruiting time travel and fleets of UFOs into it...

Miró: Theatre of Dreams

More old TV, and something you might call Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man. Miró: Theatre of Dreams is a documentary about the Spanish (or as he might have preferred, Catalan) artist Joan Miró. This was broadcast by the BBC in 1978, and again in 1984, but it’s one I hadn’t seen until now. Robin Lough’s film was the first television profile of the artist in which Miró talks at length with his British friend, Roland Penrose, an artist and writer who did much to champion Surrealism in its ea...

Synthetic Philosophy and Synthetic Surrealism

Synthetic SurrealismSourceURL: https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/synthetic-surrealism-leonora-carrington-1234588925/ In 1949, seven years after fleeing a warring Europe for Mexico City, the artist and writer Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) read a very curious book. Robert Graves’s White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth, published a year earlier, was a mythographic account of the ways in which paganism underlies Christian belief. It posited the existence of a moo...