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Baren Digest                Tuesday, 25 May 1999        Volume 07 : Number 573

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From: "Jeanne N. Chase" <studiojnc@prodigy.net>
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 09:38:15 -0400
Subject: [Baren 4460] Re: Baren Digest V7 #571

Dear Jean
Thank you for the comments on Sue Coe and her political art. I used to
lecture throughout the state on "Women Artist's". Sue Coe was one of my
selected artists and I had a wonderful slide show of her work. The audience
always reacted to the pictures with ohs and ahs. Always commenting during
the question and answer sessions in a positive light. She made her mark
emotionally and pschological on many of the viewers. Sometimes it was hard
to really look at her images, they were so graphic but that was the intent,
to shock the viewers into realization as to what was really going on in our
world.

Political art has been going on for ages, even as far back as the cave
paintings and I dare say it will always be with us until we have a Utopian
world.

I also agree with Andrea , that beauty in art is vital to lift our spirits.
Remember the movie wirh Edward G Robinson, Soylent Green. When he chose to
die he died with a huge surrounding screen of flowers, trees , the beauty of
nature. Because at that time in the future there were no flowers and trees,
just memories kept on film. Political art reminds us how fragile we are.and
what we must do to keep it alive.

Jeanne

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From: kim and paul <topcogs@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 08:21:25 +0000
Subject: [Baren 4461] Re: Baren Digest V7 #572 

James Mundie said:
> People still make prints with strong
> political statements, but the ability of these to radically affect the
> population is lessened because the prints are typically produced in small
> numbers and displayed in galleries to be seen by a small number of
> people."

This statement is valid in the USA but go to Argentina to see the 
woodcut and linocut prints plastered to streetposts, protesting "The 
Disappeared", those who have been taken and murdered by the Argentine 
government.  Printmakers must make these prints discreetly and post 
them up in the middle of the night to avoid arrest.  

Kim Kaschimer Medina

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From: amoss@mindspring.com (John Amoss)
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 08:11:26 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [Baren 4462] last chance(?) 

Opportunity to enlist!

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of your woodblock prints in order to receive a collection of 30 individual
prints from artists around the world. For exchange #2 details, please see
<http://www.woodblock.com/forum/exchange_2.html>. The dealine is July 10th-
about a month and a half from now.

And for those signed up for the exchange #3, you may "upgrade" to the #2 list...

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Thanks!
- -John Amoss

PS- Has anyone heard from Maria Arango lately? If so, do tell.

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