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From: kwigd144@aol.com (Kwigd144)
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Date: 02 Nov 2003 05:03:10 GMT
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Subject: Will there be a Statement for the Ohio Show?
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I would like to ask the Surrealists that are in the Nov.1st exhibit, Do they
have a Group Statement from the Exhibiting Surrealists condemning the Art
Establishment, condemning Capitalism, condemning President Bush and America for
the Iraq War, condemning Globalization or just anything similiar to any
Statement like the Surrealist Groups would make? Is that page on James'
website the Poster for the Surrealist Art Show? Is there any Manifestos or
Statements by the Exhibiting Surrealist Artists condemning corruption in Ohio,
you know, where the exhibit is taking place? How much money are the artworks
on exhibit for sale to the public? Will there be any sales? Please answer. Are
the exhibiting Surrealists going to give away manifestos or printed statements
to the press and public? We need to know, please help us all by giving us some
kind of response or answer. Has anyone that signed the WAH Protest Letter,
Actually carry out their threats against the Surrealist Artists on exhibit over
at WAH, like they said they would? Here is what they said they would do to the
WAH exhibit, read,
CRAVEN DESTINY
What would you think if someone, after almost a century of an organized,
self-conscious movement, came along and claimed to speak and act for
that movement, while remaining completely ignorant of its aims and
principles? This is exactly what is happening at the Williamsburg Art
and Historical Center under the guise of their Brave Destiny exhibition,
in which New Age angel and unicorn painters -- led by such wizards of
recuperation as Professor Ernst Fuchs, H.R. Giger, and the Society for
Art of the Imagination -- conjoin with bourgeois hoopla about cash
prizes, fashion shows, and artistic prestige to create a flagrant
misrepresentation of surrealism.
Surrealism stands for the revolution of the mind, for the manifestation
of poetry in everyday life, for the revolt of the pleasure principle
against the confines of the existing social reality, and for poetry made
by all, not one! Surrealism wants nothing less than the radical
transformation of the world, and spits on anyone clinging to the
repressive corpse of consumer capitalism and its art specialists!
To this end, we will converge upon this exhibition during its final
days, burn the paintings, and hurl the squirming participants,
ridiculous costumes or not, into the East River!
Frank Antonsen, Johannes Bergmark, Daniel C. Boyer, Eric Bragg, Richard
Burke, Susan Burke, Stephen Clark, Tom Clarkson, Andrew Daily, Barrett
John Erickson, Jill Fenton, Sarah Frances, Brandon Freels, Richard
Genovese, Parry Harnden, Dale M. Houstman, William Howe, Stuart Inman,
Philip Kane, Morgan Miller, Ribitch, MK Shibek, Darren Thomas, Andrew
Torch, Chris Webster, Darryl Lorenzo Wellington, Zazie.
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