Re: Durkheim redux

From: Derek Gatherer (d.gatherer@vir.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Fri 15 Apr 2005 - 15:17:15 GMT

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    http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0422/is_4_80/ai_54073959/pg_3

    "the famous Parisian hoax of 1910, in which the art critic Roland Dorgeles and the proprietor of the Montmartre cabaret Le Lapin Agile, Frederic Gerard, painted a seascape by tying a brush to a donkey's tail and then exhibited the painting at the Salon des Independants of 1910 under the name of Joachim Boronali "

    but there's no mention of them winning. I wonder about these kind of stories because there are many of the form "modern art is rubbish because it was done by a x, and the critics couldn't tell", where x can be an animal, child, weather etc. I once met somebody who claimed to have successfully executed such a hoax - but the issue is always clouded by the fact that those who make such claims always have an anti-modern art agenda.

    At 15:56 15/04/2005, you wrote:
    >Dear Derek,
    >
    >>> > IIRC, a painting by a mule won a prize in a modern
    >>> > art exhibition in
    >>> > Paris early in the 20th century. ;-)
    >>
    >>I think that's an urban myth.
    >
    >Well, I read about it several years ago, and have never heard it talked
    >about. If it was an urban myth, it was dead by that time, I think. The
    >name of the painting was given, as well as the year and place of the
    >exhibition. The information was checkable. (That doesn't mean it was true,
    >OC. ;-))
    >
    >The painting was supposedly produced by dipping the mule's tail in paint
    >and bringing the canvas to the mule. (You don't want to try it the other
    >way around. ;-))
    >
    >A Web search just now turned up references to the "Donkey's Tail"
    >exhibition in Moscow in 1912, a reaction against the decadence of Paris
    >and Munich art. Maybe there is some connection.
    >
    >Ciao,
    >
    >Bill
    >
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