Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 14:57:15 -0700
From: biomorph-AT-ix.netcom.com (Wm. Dubin)
Subject: Re: David Lynch


>
>I would like to hear everyone's view on the possibility of describing 
som>ething 
>as 'objectively' surrealist, and what criteria do you use?
>

Michael,

While I am in a "basic" agreement with your position that surrealism is 
(or can be) different for each person, and yes, I can point to 
"expierences" of my own which affec ted me in a way they affected 
no-one else I told them to, and I can even agree that Vache may have 
very little about him that was surrealiste except to Breton. However, 
if it isn't "quibbling" to much, I would still like to HOLD OUT for a 
more superiour level of expirerence which might be "objectively" 
surrealiste.

I can, at this moment, give two concrete examples:

Meret Oppenheim's FUR LINED TEA SET...actually MANY of her objects 
would do, but this is the most recognizable, and

MALDOROR by Lautrement

Wm.