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  Registered Member #2 Joined: Wed 08 Dec 2004, 09:55AMPosts: 179 | My people will meet your people These are our demands, that:
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| Registered Member #2 Joined: Wed 08 Dec 2004, 09:55AMPosts: 179 | the WHY CHEAP ART ? manifesto of THE BREAD & PUPPET Co. PEOPLE have been THINKING too long that ART is a PRIVILEGE of the museums & theRICH. ART IS NOT BUSINESS! It does not belong to banks & fancy investors ART IS FOOD. You can't EAT it BUT it FEEDSyou. ART has to be CHEAP & available toEVERYBODY. It needs to be EVERYWHEREbecause it is the INSIDE of theWORLD. ART SOOTHES PAIN! Art wakes up sleepers!ART FIGHTS AGAINST WAR & STUPIDITY! ART SINGS HALLELUJA!ART IS FOR KITCHENS! ART IS LIKE GOOD BREAD! Art is like green trees! Art is like white clouds in blue sky! ART IS CHEAP! [ Edited Sat 17 Jul 2010, 07:44PM ] | ||
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| Registered Member #2 Joined: Wed 08 Dec 2004, 09:55AMPosts: 179 | a link to excerpts from Breton's Surrealist's manifesto [link] | ||
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| Registered Member #2 Joined: Wed 08 Dec 2004, 09:55AMPosts: 179 | Bauhaus Manifesto The ultimate aim of all creative activity is a building! The decoration of buildings was once the noblest function of fine arts, and fine arts were indispensable to great architecture. Today they exist in complacent isolation, and can only be rescued by the conscious co-operation and collaboration of all craftsmen. Architects, painters, and sculptors must once again come to know and comprehend the composite character of a building, both as an entity and in terms of its various parts. Then their work will be filled with that true architectonic spirit which, as "salon art", it has lost.The old art schools were unable to produce this unity; and how, indeed, should they have done so, since art cannot be taught? Schools must return to the workshop. The world of the pattern-designer and applied artist, consisting only of drawing and painting must become once again a world in which things are built. If the young person who rejoices in creative activity now begins his career as in the older days by learning a craft, then the unproductive "artist" will no longer be condemned to inadequate artistry, for his skills will be preserved for the crafts in which he can achieve great things.Architects, painters, sculptors, we must all return to crafts! For there is no such thing as "professional art". There is no essential difference between the artist and the craftsman. The artist is an exalted craftsman. By the grace of Heaven and in rare moments of inspiration which transcend the will, art may unconsciously blossom from the labour of his hand, but a base in handicrafts is essential to every artist. It is there that the original source of creativity lies.Let us therefore create a new guild of craftsmen without the class-distinctions that raise an arrogant barrier between craftsmen and artists! Let us desire, conceive, and create the new building of the future together. It will combine architecture, sculpture, and painting in a single form, and will one day rise towards the heavens from the hands of a million workers as the crystalline symbol of a new and coming faith.WALTER GROPIUS | ||
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| Registered Member #2 Joined: Wed 08 Dec 2004, 09:55AMPosts: 179 | [link] link to another manfesto | ||
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 Registered Member #4 Joined: Thu 09 Dec 2004, 09:00PMPosts: 18 | dream as if you will live forever live as if you will die today imagine all the people living life in peace make the invisible visible sing your song dance the can can can can can | ||
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| Registered Member #2 Joined: Wed 08 Dec 2004, 09:55AMPosts: 179 | The excellent Common Ground [link] rules for local distinctiveness Fight for AUTHENTICITY and integrity. Keep places lived in, worked in and real. Demand the BEST of the new.
Value the COMMON place. Our Cultural Landscapes are our ordinary history and everyday nature intertwined.
CHANGE things for the better. Not for the sake of it!!
Let the CHARACTER of the people and place express itself.Kill corporate identity before it kills our high streets. Give local shops precedence.
Defend DETAIL. Respond to the local and the vernacular. No new building or develop-ment need be bland, boring or brash.
Local DIALECT should be spoken, heard and seen.
ENHANCE the natural features - rivers and brooks, hills and valleys, woods and heaths. Never let a stream be culverted: out of sight and open to abuse.
We need ENCHANTMENT, clear streams as well as clean water in our daily lives.
Take the place 's FINGERPRINT. Forget words such as resource, site, customers and the public. Abstractions lead us astray. Think and talk about places and people.
Get to know your GHOSTS. The hidden and unseen stories and legends are as important as the visible.
Don 't fossilize places. HISTORY is a continuing process, not just the past. Celebrate time, place and the seasons with Feasts and Festivals.
Our IMAGINATION needs diversity and variegation. We need standards not standardisation.
Work for local IDENTITY. Oppose monoculture in our fields, parks, gardens and buildings. Resist formulaic and automatic ordering from pattern books which homogenise and deplete.
JETTISON your car whenever you can and go by public transport. Places are for people and nature not cars. Cars can detach us from places and unwittingly allow their destruction.
Know your place. Facts and surveys are not the same as KNOWLEDGE and wisdom. Itinerant expertise needs to meet with aboriginal, place based knowledge so we can make the best of both worlds.
Buy things that are LOCALLY DISTINCTIVE and locally made - such as food and souvenirs. Resist the things that can be found anywhere.
The LAND is sacred in many cultures. Why have we put a protective noose around the spectacular and the special and left the rest? All of our surroundings are important to someone.
Places carry MEANING in their associations and symbolisms. Don't plough through significance, it cannot be recreated. The well or tree maybe the reason why a place is where it is.
Bring the countryside to the town. Keep the fruit, vegetable and local produce MARKETS open and alive. We should be able to buy Norfolk Biffins in Norwich and James Grieves in Edinburgh.
NAMES carry resonances and secrets. Respect local names and add new ones with care. It is not good enough to call a new estate 'Badger's Mead'' when the badgers have been destroyed.
Let NATURE in. Encourage the plants that want to grow in your locality. You 'll find a succession of good and diverse neighbours that bring richness to your doorstep. Champion the ORDINARY and everyday.
Get to know your place intimately. Search out PARTICULARITY & PATINA help add new layers of interest.
QUALITY cannot be quantified. You know when something is important to you - make subjective and emotional arguments. Don't be put off because the professionals have marginalised all the things they can't count. Make them listen and look.
REVEAL the geology. Use the brick and stone of the locality. Reinforce the colour, patterns, craftsmanship and work of the place.
REMEMBER the depth of people's attachment to places. Do not undermine local pride and rootedness with insensitive change.
REVEAL the past! Decay is an important process. Don't tidy things up so much that the layers of history and reclamation by nature are obliterated. Let continuity show. Personality often resides in SUBTLETY and idiosyncrasy. Look closely and often. Get things in proportion and in SCALE. Every place has its own distinctive dimensions. THWART the urbanization of the countryside. Fight the kerbstones and other roadside paraphernalia.
USE old buildings again. Find new functions for them. Accretion is better than demolition.
VALUE your own values! Democracy thrives on discussion about things that matter to us. Let the experts in on your terms.
Slowdown, wisdom comes through WALKING, talking and listening.
Exile XENOPHOBIAwhich fossilizes places and peoples. Welcome cultural diversity and vive la difference.
Make an alphabet of YOUR own place. Work to reinforce local distinctiveness. Play your part, celebrate your differences.
Y FILLTIR SGWAR - that place which you own through familiarity and which 'owns' you needs your vigilance.
Introduce ZEITGEIST to genius loci. Don't let the signs of the times destroy the power of the place.
ZONING and segregation kill places! ! If industry is bad enough to be hidden should it exist at all? [ Edited Wed 08 Sep 2010, 09:32PM ] | ||
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