Maddox, Conroy
A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
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Maddox, Conroy (1912–2005). British painter, born at Ledbury, Hertfordshire. He has been the most committed, energetic, and enduring British exponent of
Surrealism, remaining true to its ideals throughout a very long career. In 1937 he worked with the Paris Surrealists and the following year he joined the short-lived English Surrealist Group; he thought that ‘the collapse of the English Surrealist movement can be attributed to its failure to establish a coherent political position’ ( Charles Harrison,
English Art and Modernism: 1900–1939, 1981). One of Maddox's paintings from this period,
Passage de l'Opera (Tate Gallery, London, 1940), shows a clear debt to
Magritte in its enigmatic bowler-hatted figures, but he has also worked in different veins and has made collages and objects as well as paintings. Much of his work has been inspired by his intense antagonism to religion (‘It is not that I am just against religion: I want to destroy it', he said in 1994) and he has made something of a speciality of deriding nuns. In 1974 he published a book on Dal'.
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The joy of grass
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quack grass
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wheat grass
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couch grass
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
couch grass name for several grasses, among them quack grass .
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