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All the Fun of the Fair
The Surrealists’ Leg Pull
By M.J. MacNally
… Of course there are cults, societies, brotherhoods — call them what you will — such as Dadaists, Symbolists, Surrealists, Aesthetes, Parnassians, Symbolists, and a hundred and one other names, who on the European side are continually popping up, doing a stunt, and then fading out in a blaze of fireworks…the same old stunts, cigar bands, and matchboxes pasted on the canvas with girls covered with spots carrying cabbages, raving about ‘pattern’… dear old London ‘falls’ for it just as it ‘falls’ for anything bizarre or freakish. It is truly the home of the chestnut.
Here in Australia we are very lucky. We get very little of this Continental hysteria. Occasionally an artistic ‘con. man’ will come to light with a freak
