Primer 10 — Against Art with Sea Monsters · CURATED BY MICHAEL MCINNIS
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About the text
Excerpts from Stewart Home archives, Art Strike Papers, and various internet archives.
Illustration Source Material
Nouveau dictionnaire encyclopédique universel illustré, published Paris: La Librairie Illustrée, 1885-1891.
16 pages; 4×7; saddle-stitched
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What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.
— Werner Herzog
The Art of Refusal and the Refusal of Art
“We must liquidate this crazy thing called art to make it possible for all people everywhere to be creative. It is our duty to become self-destructive in a constructive way. We must liquidate not only our own function as artists but we must liquidate the art system as well.” From theManifesto of The International Coalition for the Liquidation of Art
To demand the destruction of art in the name of creativity is merely a reform of Power. To trade off art against creativity is to take back with one hand what has been rejected by the other. Those who genuinely oppose alienated social relations will not only break with art but affirm the refusal of creativity.
— Stewart Home, The Art of Ideology & The Ideology of Art
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