Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it …

Susan Sontag
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Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois. ✨ Susan Sontag (2011). On Photography, p.49, Macmillan
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