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Article: Surrealism's subversive enemy within; The Hayward Gallery's new exhibition promises startling revelations but they fizzle out in the first room.
- Article from:
- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 19, 2006
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Byline: BRIAN SEWELL
THERE is more to Surrealism than Salvador Dalc, though it was he who made Surrealist art approachable, acceptable and enjoyable, removed it from a controlling clique of theorists and brought it into the bright lights and broad acres of popular imagery.
The "Pope" of Surrealism was Andre Breton, not a painter, not a sculptor, but a poet and cod philosopher; the movement's guiding ideologue, the writer of its manifestos, its chief moral and executive force, his only claim to be anything of a visual artist lay in his assemblages of inconsequential objects juxtaposed, and even these he regarded as a literary form, mute poetry. He could ...