NZC:now the world has gone too far!!!!! - Sale of the atelier of André Breton
Sorry about this , but I figured this might be of interest to some on this list...
As reported recently in the New York Times, Andre Breton's studio at 42 Rue Fontaine, Paris, which has been kept intact since his death, is about to be dismantled and its contents sold at auction. Following is a petition of protest, urging instead the establishment of a museum.
If you want to participate, please add your name to the bottom and email a copy to J Karl Bogartte <bogartte@execpc.com>, who is administering the petition.
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Date: 20/12/02 10:44 PM
RE: Sale (uitverkoop) of the atelier of André Breton
http://www.geocities.com/surrealisme_in_nederland/
No Sale
We, the undersigned, support any and all opposition to the 2003 CalmelsCohen, Drouot-Richelieu sale of the collections of Andre Breton. We find the very idea of this event to be repugnant, and contrary to the best accounting of the History of the Twentieth Century.
Together, the manuscripts, books, objects, and art within Andre Breton's studio at 42 Rue Fontaine are very different from other "great collections." Together, they represent a multicultural Idea the likes of which has never before been seen in Europe or elsewhere. Together, and only together they create a Marvelous Site with more historic significance than many in Paris. Anyone who has ever had the experience of seeing this Place from the inside knows its worth to be far beyond the sum total of its contents. It must be preserved.
We in the US cannot imagine how, in all of France, there is not the wherewithal to establish a permanent place to house this vastly important international collection. Furthermore, we intend to support in any way possible the establishment of such a place.
The Gustave Moreau, Freud's Berggasse 19, Adolph Wolfli's Room, The Watts Towers of Los Angeles . . . were all places once on the verge of oblivion.
We say in the spirit of those great places, please, no sale.
Thom Burns Email
J Karl Bogartte
Laurance Weisberg Los Angeles CA
Raman Rao
Paul Weisz-Carrington
Andrew Lass, Prof. of Anthropology, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA
Jeanne Brooks Matthews (Widow of J.H. Matthews- Syracuse University)
Jack J. Spector, Prof. of Art History, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J.
Willie Gregory
M.E. Warlick, University of Denver
Allan Graubard
Robert Sharrard (USA)
Nanos Valaoritis (USA)
Marie Wilson (USA)
Nancy J. Peters (USA)
Philip Lamantia C/O City Lights Books (USA)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti C/O City Lights Books (USA)
Rik Lina (NL)
Bastiaan van der Velden
Alastair Brotchie (UK)
Damon Krukowski & Naomi Yang, Exact Change (USA)
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--- aaron chua <aaronchua22@yahoo.com> escribió: > Sorry about this , but I figured this might be of
interest to some on this list...
As reported recently in the New York Times, Andre Breton's studio at 42 Rue Fontaine, Paris, which has been kept intact since his death, is about to be dismantled and its contents sold at auction. Following is a petition of protest, urging instead the establishment of a museum.
If you want to participate, please add your name to the bottom and email a copy to J Karl Bogartte <bogartte@execpc.com>, who is administering the petition.
----------------------------------------------------- Till i was read this mail, I hadn't know nothing more about this "culture murder" planned by that bastards , please, any information will be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Regards.Ricardo. ___________________________________________________ Yahoo! Móviles Personaliza tu móvil con tu logo y melodÃa favorito en http://moviles.yahoo.es
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 23:03:44 +0100 (CET) =?iso-8859-1?q?Ricardo=20Campillo?= wrote:
Till i was read this mail, I hadn't know nothing more about this "culture murder" planned by that bastards , please, any information will be appreciated.
If that's the only thing you have to worry about these day, I envy you. Sorry, but the trend which consists to make a museum out of the house of every artist or famous person is getting a little bit ridiculous. Breton's legacy is in his writings. Isn't enough? Do we need to see the chair that an artist use to write his famous novel? The spoon that he ate his soup with, etc. It is specially ironic when this momification process (creating museums) is applied to artists who prided themselves as fighting against bourgeois values. What is more bourgeois than museums of artists who spit on bourgeois values? As least dead they are harmless and everybody can laud them without risk. Patrice.
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Patrice L. Roussel -
Ricardo Campillo