SUFFER! SUFFER!

Rachel Withers

Ow! Ow! For crying out loud, put down that cat-o'-nine-tails and pay attention. The Marquis de Sade wasn't just a connoisseur of eighteenth-century perversions. He was the driving force behind Surrealism's espousal of atheism, materialism, and erotics, argues "Sade/Surreal: The Marquis de Sade and the Erotic Imagination of Surrealism in Word and Image," at the Kunsthaus Zurich from November 30 to March 3. Expect an orgy or hypothetical entanglements as Goya and Fussli's Enlightenment nightmares encounter the fantasies of Bunuel, Duchamp, Bellmer, et al. on ...

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