Surreal
Signs of Life in a Surreal World: A Conversation with Charlotte Mandell on Breton and Soupault’s “The Magnetic Fields”
FEBRUARY 21, 2021 IN THE SPRING of 1919, the poets André Breton and Philippe Soupault started an experimental collaboration that will turn out to be a foundational doc for surrealism: The Magnetic Fields. 100 years after its preliminary publication, The Magnetic Fields feels prescient, and at occasions unnerving, because of the context of world warfare […]
After A Surreal Year Like This, How Do We Center Ourselves Again?
Since we’re within the American West, permit me to use a regionally-appropriate metaphor. 2020’s downcast infamy is scorched into our collective psyche like a model on the cover. Like every branding there may be an arc within the process resulting in the pink scorching iron’s smoking stab and the everlasting mark it leaves. How has […]
