Susan Sontag Quotes About Surrealism

Quotes about: Surrealism

• Surrealism in painting amounted to little more than the contents of a meagerly stocked dream world: a few witty fantasies, mostly wet dreams and agoraphobic nightmares.

  Susan Sontag

  Dream, Witty, World

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.46, Macmillan

• Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois.

  Susan Sontag

  Surrealism, Universal, Bourgeois

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.49, Macmillan

• Surrealism can only deliver a reactionary judgment; can make out of history only an accumulation of oddities, a joke, a death trip.

  Susan Sontag

  Oddities, Judgment, Accumulation

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.68, Macmillan

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