The Spectacle of Disintegration. Маккензи Уорк

interesting détournements of previous modernist advances: Joan Miró redid Paul Klee; Max Ernst redid Giorgio De Chirico. Even the best Surrealist writing on the everyday—Michel Leiris—descended into a sort of queer empiricism.³⁰ “Never opting firmly either for a poetry made by all or for the venality of the ruling system, Surrealism took something of both and produced an impoverished cultural hodgepodge.”³¹ One suspects Clark would not entirely disagree.