[2] Picasso and the Murphys (a wealthy American couple that were the subjects in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night) attended the groups Riviera performances.
[1] Vanel's performance at the Exposition explored conventional and Surrealist ideas of hysteria through dance, as well as an existing as a physical form of automatism.
This condition precipitated into many symptoms of malaise, all thought to be directly correlated to the mental inferiority of women, though today in 2019 it is understood to be a product of PTSD from sexual assault and verbal abuse within a society with no framework for discussing such things.
She created a total uproar with her violent entrance, lunging up onto the bed, holding at arm's length a live rooster which cackled in terror.
To simultaneously acquire the sense of the invisible powers which attract us even while repelling us: Is this not a means of overcoming ourselves, of leaving behind marasmus and mediocrity, a method for attaining that magnificence that we have so shamefully abandoned.