Myth in Surrealist Painting
2009 June 18
Parker Tyler’s “Christ, Socrates, Stalin and the role of Narcissus”
…although ostensibly committed to a world outside themselves, were in fact completely egotistical in their implicit views of themselves as instruments chosen for some greater purpose…
the metamorphosed self-image is the hidden keynote of platonic love, which primarily is the passionate love of physical beauty by those who cannot countenance their own externial homliness. (Socrates)
why am I so preoccupied with transformation?
Myth in Surrealist Painting, 1929-1939
Whitney Chadwick
U.M.I. Research Press
1989
with note by myself
