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Re: Conroy Maddox is Dead Bell Sympatico
Robert Morpheal (morpheal@sympatico.ca) 2005/01/15 21:30

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kinslerp@delillo.lsr.ph.ic.ac.uk wrote:
>
> Conroy Maddox enjoyed the distinction of being the
> last surviving Surrealist painter from the original
> pre-war avant-garde. He also proved to be one of the
> movement's strongest and most unreformed aficionados.

That is why almost no one mentions him.

Surrealism remains amongst the most taboo artistic movements
within the history of art.

However, I long ago took up Breton's defiance against the language
of time and temporality, denying its ultimate validity, in extrapolation
from that. Then I found out I was right, and of course that therefore he
was right also.

When art is "right" about something, surely that is it's death knell
more often than not.

R.M.

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