Liberal artists defile 80 goya prints.

[Anonymous]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,...,926092,00.html (http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,926092,00.html)

Two years ago, the Chapmans bought a complete set of what has become the most revered series of prints in existence, Goya's Disasters of War. It is a first-rate, mint condition set of 80 etchings printed from the artist's plates. In terms of print connoisseurship, in terms of art history, in any terms, this is a treasure - and they have vandalised it.

"We had it sitting around for a couple of years, every so often taking it out and having a look at it," says Dinos, until they were quite sure what they wanted to do. "We always had the intention of rectifying it, to take that nice word from The Shining, when the butler's trying to encourage Jack Nicholson to kill his family - to rectify the situation," interrupts Jake.

"So we've gone very systematically through the entire 80 etchings," continues Dinos, "and changed all the visible victims' heads to clowns' heads and puppies' heads."


http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/gallery/0,8...,926340,00.html (http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/gallery/0,8542,926340,00.html)


Liberal, postmodern, deconstructionist, critical theorists systematically defiling western culture! I feel sick.

(Edited by Dark Capitalist at 5:33 am on April 7, 2003)

[Pete]

This is just as sickening as when the US government put the curtain over the Painting of Geurnica when making pro war speeches.

[Blibblob]

Well, if they were just copies and not the real thing, it would be kinda funny.

[redstar2000]

Well, DC, it looks pretty bad.

I wonder how much money this couple makes out of these "creative destructions"?

Isn't that the only question that really counts these days?

If some real estate developer wants to tear down a block of comfortable, low-rent apartment buildings and erect some glass & steel monument to ugliness...will that also arouse your ire, DC?

Or will your only question be: should I invest in this project or not? Will it make money?

:cool:

[suffianr]

first-rate, mint condition set of 80 etchings printed from the artist's plates

They're reprints. Re-pro-duc-tions. So, what's the problem?

Anyone can fuck up a reprint. You should go down to Thailand, I saw some really imaginative deconstructions, including Salvador Dali's The Persistence of Memory, and parodies of Edward Munch's The Scream. Nice.

Fucking puritans. :)

[Dhul Fiqar]

Exactly, what's the big friggin' deal?

DC, you live in a capitalist system where money talks. They had the money to buy the reprints, by the logic of capitalism they can do anything they want with them. It's no business of mine if you choose to piss in your own shoes, so it's no business of yours if they choose to paint over these prints.

Unless of course you don't believe in private property ;)

--- G.