“GROUPE SURRÉALISTE” MAN RAY // circa 1924-25 [gelatin silver print | 9.2 x 8.3 cm.]

Ballet mécanique (Fernand Léger & Dudley Murphy, 1924)

Atlantic ocean

© Manoel T, 2024

/ Hannah Höch, Photomontage, 1920

Max Ernst (1891-1976) — The Ruin [oil on canvas, 1922]

having dadaist sex with my absurdist wife

Schtzngrmm

by Ernst Jandl

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Background info:

Viennese poet Ernst Jandl (1925 – 2000), was an active soldier in World War II. In this experimental poem, which plays on the word "Schützengraben", "war trench", he processed his experiences in the tranches of the battlefield. He wrote about this kind of poem: "The speech poem is only effective by reading it out loud, the length and intensity of the sounds are fixed by the spelling. Tension arises from the succession of short and long sounds, hardening of the word by removal of the vowels, disassembling the word and reshuffling of its elements to new, expressive sound groups, varied word repetitions with thematically justified supply of new words to the explosive final punchline."

Duchamp and Dali playing chess during filming for A Soft Self-Portrait, 1966 Photo by Robert Descharnes and Paul Averty. ©Descharnes & Descharnes sarl 2016. Archivo Fotografico Pere Vehi, Cadaques

Excerpt from The Ballad of Reading Gaol I

"VENUS RESTAURÉE" MAN RAY // 1935–36 [gelatin silver print | 10 × 7 3/8"]

Ballet mécanique (Fernand Léger & Dudley Murphy, 1924)

Grand paysage Américain - Arizona (Great American Landscape - Arizona), Max Ernst, circa 1955

Oil on panel 9 ⅜ x 13 in. (23.8 x 33 cm)

gray matter

@marauderfan: a poirot quote?

© Manoel T, 2024

Max Ernst (1891-1976) — Flower Shell and Animal Head on Red and Black Background  [oil on canvas, 1928]

Erwin Blumenfeld,

Shadow (Jo Regaldi), 1936