Like “neo-surrealism,” hyper surrealism is a tautology. Surrealism already is hyper surrealism. People are free to label their work any way they wish of course, but surrealism was both neo and hyper from the very beginning. read more
In Surrealism & War, then, "surrealism" itself became double in meaning, encompassing both the psychological character of the veterans' artwork and the aesthetic genealogy built into the curators' framework. read more