Gorey Surrealism

I first encountered Lee Miller at the V&A in 2008:

Early this summer, I ran into her (and her son, Anthony Penrose) at the PEM:

And then I saw her again in W magazine this August:

Penrose's stories about her life as an artist, a lover, a Surrealist, a mother, and an alcoholic were well-rehearsed but fascinating.

Here's what Edward Gorey had to say about Surrealism in a 1997 interview for Speak:

Q. Are you interested in Dada?

Yes. I regret that i wasn't around when it was [happening]. I'm also very interested in Surrealism. I think that most of the stuff that was produced was not terribly interesting. All you have to do is hand me a book of Surrealist short stories and I go to sleep instantly. The art is marginally more interesting. The whole theory of Surrealism I'm all for. And even more so with Dada. By the time you get to the Surrealists, they're getting more philosophical.

(Interviewer: Ed Pinsent)