Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois.
ATTRIBUTION:
Susan Sontag (b. 1933), U.S. essayist. “Melancholy Objects,” On Photography (1977).
For Sontag, “surrealism in painting amounted to little more than the contents of a meagerly stocked dream world: a few witty fantasies, mostly wet dreams and agoraphobic nightmares.”
