{"id":216,"date":"2025-01-17T07:21:19","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T07:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/01\/17\/david-lynch-the-great-american-surrealist-who-made-experimentalism-mainstream\/"},"modified":"2025-01-17T07:21:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T07:21:19","slug":"david-lynch-the-great-american-surrealist-who-made-experimentalism-mainstream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/01\/17\/david-lynch-the-great-american-surrealist-who-made-experimentalism-mainstream\/","title":{"rendered":"David Lynch: the great American surrealist who made experimentalism mainstream"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Lynch saw that if the US dreamed of safety and prosperity and the suburban drive and the picket fence, it also dreamed of the opposite: of escape, danger, adventure, sex and death. And the two collided and opened up chasms and sinkholes in the lost highway to happiness.<br \/>\nLynch was a film-maker who found portals to alternative existences and truffled in them like they were erogenous zones, moist orifices of existential possibility. He was the great American surrealist, but his vision<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2025\/jan\/16\/david-lynch-the-great-american-surrealist-who-made-experimentalism-mainstream\">www.theguardian.com\/film\/2025\/jan\/16\/david-lynch-the-great-american-surrealist-who-made-experimentalism-mainstream<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lynch saw that if the US dreamed of safety and prosperity and the suburban drive and the picket fence, it also dreamed of the opposite: of escape, danger, adventure, sex and death. And the two collided and opened up chasms and sinkholes in the lost highway to happiness. Lynch was a film-maker who found portals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}