Reconciled at the end of the 1930s when Miller was married to the British Surrealist Roland Penrose, the pair stayed friends for the rest of their lives.
Now she figures centrally in "Shocked," a sensual memoir by Patricia Volk, illustrated with photographs, artifacts and maps — some doctored to amusing effect, as if an enthusiastic Surrealist with a pair of scissors had gotten hold of the Volk family album.
Other works to seek out here include "The Conversation," a 1984 painted and patinated bronze sculpture of a Surrealist female head paired with a male head that is all right angles and exaggerated wood-grain, and a 1997 drawing that is unlike any work of his I've ever seen.
Knouf and Pederson wanted to point out the brittleness of electronic surveillance and show how easy and hazardous it was to spread "disinformation," so they turned to Salvador Dalí's "paranoiac-critical" surrealist technique of pairing images that are not rationally linked.
More interesting are the pieces with a Surrealist bent, like the pair of earrings that spell out Joan Miró's piquant declamation "A bas la Méditerranée" ("Down With the Mediterranean").
The most expensive objects he's bought are a pair of contemporary surrealist paintings by the Washington State artist Robert Helm.
Ignorant about the wars, Penrose knew his mother and his father, Roland — a founder of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London and a leading Surrealist painter — only as a pair of eccentric bohemians who had guests like Picasso and Man Ray at Farley Farm.
In homage to the Surrealists, Louboutin once created a pair of pumps with a hydrodynamic shape, a bulging eye above the pinkie toe, and tessellating rows of black and gold scales — the foot as a fish.
In homage to the Surrealists, Louboutin once created a pair of pumps with a hydrodynamic shape, a bulging eye above the pinkie toe, and tessellating rows of black and gold scales the foot as a fish.
After the R-rated "There's Something About Mary" and "Me, Myself and Irene," they showed off their sensitive side with a pair of sweet, borderline surrealist fables: "Shallow Hal" (2001), a body-image fairy tale with Gwyneth Paltrow in a fat suit, and "Stuck on You," a testament to brotherly attachment and separation.
