I would be remiss if I did not confess my reluctance to write this entry, from a lack of sympathy for the esthetics, the art politics, and even the practitioners of organized
Surrealism
. Consider the authoritarian structure that placed
Andrȁ Breton
as a kind of pope who was forever excommunicating those with whom he disagreed or those who disputed his authority. (Would such grotesque parodies of Stalinist purges,
in Paul Mann's phrase, have been as feasible in a Protestant...
