From: Rob Gawthrop (email suppressed)
Date: Sat Aug 16 2008 - 16:13:53 PDT
I donıt know but I guess youıre right abourt the work with Debord.
(Iıll be out of contact for a couple of weeks so wont be able to contribute
further)
Rob
On 16/8/08 21:33, "Eli Horwatt" <email suppressed> wrote:
> Thanks Rob, but are you aware of any of these "updated" paintings? I can't
> figure out if it was tied to his work with Debord on Memoires. Have you heard
> of these?
>
> Eli
>
> On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Rob Gawthrop <email suppressed>
> wrote:
>> Asger Jorn was connected to Cobra and then the International movement of
>> Imagist Bauhaus, people associated with this and others associated with the
>> Lettrists (particularly Guy Debord) formed the Situationist International.
>> The painters associated with Cobra (the most well known being Karel Appel)
>> made works that were deliberately child-like, similar to Art-Brut but being
>> Marxist were suspicious of expression and were essentially "critical" works
>> that combined figuration, gestural marks and "paint".
>> The're not too difficult to find.
>>
>> Rob
>>
>>
>>
>> On 16/8/08 19:05, "Eli Horwatt" <email suppressed> wrote:
>>
>>> A year ago I came across a brief description of a Situationist painter who
>>> had "updated" classical paintings to make them contemporary. I was almost
>>> certain this was Asger Jörn, but I cannot locate a passage describing these
>>> works. Does anyone remember these paintings or have a lead on where a
>>> description of these paintings might be found?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Eli Horwatt
>>>
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