On 23/1/06 10:59 PM, "Roger Day" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> People - particularly visual
> artists, have rubbed along without recourse to other disciplines quite
> happily for a long time now as far as I can see. There's a whole
> history of it. Read any biog of the major artists, look at photographs
> of them in their studios, their homes. I think you'll search a long
> time before you find evidence of books in those photos.
Gosh. I'm thinking of Eluard naming Miro's paintings, and how he counted
Dali and Tanguy among his close friends; Appollinaire and Chagall; Frank
O'Hara and the New York school of artists, the whole history of collage
(which comes from poets) and Breton and surrealism...then theatre and dance
and the visual artists and writers who participated in those art forms
(Giacommeti designing the tree in Waiting for Godot, Balanchine and
Chagall), Kiefer, who has worked so much off the poetry of Celan, or people
like Cocteau, who seemed to do everything...
It's late here and I feel a bit incoherent, but this seems an amazing
statement, Roger.
Best
A
Alison Croggon
Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com
Editor, Masthead: http://masthead.net.au
Home page: http://alisoncroggon.com
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