Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
Auguste Rodin’s The Thinker, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak Street, Kansas City, MO
From Percy Bysshe Shelley’s The Cenci (1819)
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Diary of a Genius
The uneasy marriage of reason and nightmare which has dominated the 20th century has given birth to an increasingly surreal world.
Comedy and Tragedy, Gilbert Bridge, Barbican Centre, City of London, EC2Y
More and more, we see that the events of our own times make sense in terms of surrealism rather than any other view…
Petticoat Lane, Spitalfields, Tower Hamlets, E1
…whether the grim facts of the death-camps, Hiroshima and Viet Nam, or our far more ambiguous unease at organ transplant surgery and the extra-uterine foetus…
Ofra Zimbalista's Blue Men, Maya House, Borough High Street, Southwark, SE1
…the confusions of the media landscape with its emphasis on the glossy, lurid and bizarre, its hunger for the irrational and sensational.
Patricio Forrester's Deptford Marbles, New Cross Road, Deptford, Lewisham, SE14
JG Ballard’s introduction to Salvador Dali’s Diary of a Genius (1974)
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Statues
The stone unhewn and cold
Tom Murphy's Billy Fury, Albert Dock, Liverpool, Merseyside, L3
Becomes a living mould,
Ivor Roberts-Jones' Sir Winston Churchill, Parliament Square, Westminster, SW1P
The more the marble wastes,
Rowan Gillespie's Famine Memorial, Dublin Quayside, Dublin 1
The more the statue grows.
Edward W. Wyon's Richard Green, East India Dock Road, Poplar, Tower Hamlets, E14
From Michelangelo’s Sonnet
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