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"Beautiful as the chance meeting of a sewing machine and an umbrella on a dissecting table" is the most famous formulation of the Surrealist effect, penned by the Comte de Lautreamont in the 1860s and adopted as a rallying cry by Andre Breton at the inception of the Surrealist movement. Lautreamont's vivid simile lent itself both to poetry and to visual art, and the Surrealist artists were quick to grasp that an entirely new kind of sculpture could be made from such... More >>
Surreal Objects
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