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| ArtCatalog.com | Yes, although efforts were made to play down
this little-known fact, "the" Walt Disney and his brother Roy submitted four
cartoon cells from The Three Little Wolves for the Museum of Modern Art's
"Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism" exhibit in 1936. The Disney studio
quickly began to distance itself from the group, though, when they became aware of the
Communist tendencies of the artists. "Deep in the subconscious there must be a stream of continuity, some mysterious power linking us with that source whence all ideas originate...For a moment, then, let us surrender to the ultimately absurd. Pull down the barriers of sanity and let us indulge to the fullest in the realm of unreason....The escape from reason allows one to create a world that at last has meaning. The intelligence is put to rout." - Keith L. Eggener in "An Amazing Lack of Logic" (American Art Fall 1993 p. 39) quoting Robert D. Feild, The Art of Walt Disney (New York: MacMillan, 1942) pp. 57-60.
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