Currently reading
Vineland (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
Tristes Tropiques
Richard III
The Dwarf
The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen
Labyrinths
Giotto to Dürer: Early Renaissance Painting in the National Gallery
Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics
Gravity's Rainbow
A Gravity's Rainbow Companion: Sources and Contexts for Pynchon's Novel
Max Ernst, 1891-1976: Beyond Painting (Taschen Basic Art)
For me - with my very limited understanding here - much of the dada and surrealist work I've seen... simply strikes me as somehow immature -- psychologically, emotionally... I'm not sure what the right word is. It also seems to me to be dated. It's not holding up well. It may just be my ignorance or lack of sympathy or something... Or maybe it's just Ernst doesn't sit well with me. I like Hans Arp's work enormously... but the thought of an 80+ year old Ernst painting those funny futuristic bugs -- like a video game player -- doesn't quite fit for me...Perhaps it is this: Surrealists and Dadaists were mostly very consciousvof being "modern". But "Art cannot be modern; art is eternal", as Schiele often said.