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Re: Conroy Maddox is Dead UKLINUX NET
kinslerp (kinslerp@delillo.lsr.ph.ic.ac.uk) 2005/01/16 03:20

Robert Morpheal <morpheal@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 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.

THat might be so.  But since he just died, mentioning
him in alt.surrealism seemed appropriate.

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

Oh, bollocks,  Misunderstood, misrepresented, and perhaps
even polluted with mediocre poetry, but it's hardly
taboo.

#Paul

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