Summary
Ethier combines the grotesquerie of underground comics (à Ia Gilbert Shelton's Freak Brothers) with the front-and-center composition of the album cover, and paints it all in dark, vivid hues, which- thinned out in his solution- mix with watercolor-like blurring, enhancing the unreal. In the 28-minute Michael Hamburger (one of three films screening here), Dean presents the renowned poet and translator (82 and frail at the time) through simple vignettes: pocketing apples in his rustling orchard, hunching over his desk, napping.
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The Lurid Unreal
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Recommendations by Robert SinisterAndré Ethier: Heading South'Derek Eller Gallery61S West27thStreet,212-206-64UThrough May 16The Lurid UnrealAutomatism, embraced by the surrealists as a direct path to the subconscio...See the full content of this document
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