![]() ![]() In my day people in London would have been shocked. The Royal Academy recently gave a retrospective exhibition of Dada art and they decorated the gallery like a public lavatory. Even Buckingham Palace has a large reproduction of Magritte’s famous slice of ham with an eye peering out. Surrealism is no longer considered modern today and almost every village rectory and girl’s school have surrealist pictures hanging on their walls. Through her fictional character, Carrington ironically posits that the avant-garde movement will join the art canon and establishment it initially so violently opposed: ![]() ![]() 1In the following extract from Leonora Carrington’s novel The Hearing Trumpet (1976), the heroine predicts what will come of surrealism in the art world. ![]()
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