…least throughout the 20th century and the late 19th century. Pataphysics, for example, which was a french art movement started by Alfred Jarry and his friends. And, you know, in 1888, Lantreman stole. Strolled the streets of Paris with a lobster on a…

…his friends. And, you know, in 1888, Lantreman stole. Strolled the streets of Paris with a lobster on a leash. And Alfred Jarry made casts of his erections and displayed them prominently in his apartment. I mean, these people were tweakers, there's no…

…of burning flesh in the air. And it was clear that the ideals of the Enlightenment were not going to serve people like Alfred Jarry in 1885, and Lantrema, who said that he thirsted for the kind of beauty that arises when a bicycle meets a sewing…

…the emotions set the stage, then, for what I take to be the truly shamanic movements in art, which begin, really, with Alfred Jarry in the late 1880s and early 1890s. Jari, you may remember, was the founder. Of something called the Ecole du Pata…

…I see reaching clear back to the birth of the 20th century and the 19th century, back to people like Alfred Jarry and Gumare, Polonnaire and the Pataphysicians, the surrealists, the physicists around Einstein, Freud, modern art, modern dance, jazz, all of…