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From: kinslerp@delillo.lsr.ph.ic.ac.uk
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Subject: Re: Conroy Maddox is Dead
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 10:20:40 +0000
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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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