RE: Familiar images ... Visionary Art

From: Lawrence DeBivort (debivort@umd5.umd.edu)
Date: Tue Jun 26 2001 - 01:34:20 BST

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From: "Lawrence DeBivort" <debivort@umd5.umd.edu>
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Subject: RE: Familiar images ... Visionary Art
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    Thanks for the AVAM recommendation. In the last few weeks several people
    have mentioned it independently, some I must get there and will probably be
    able to do so soon. I'll report back.

    - Lawrence

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk]On Behalf
    > Of Wade T.Smith
    > Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 9:11 AM
    > To: memetics list
    > Subject: RE: Familiar images make false impressions
    >
    >
    > On 06/21/01 14:01, Lawrence DeBivort said this-
    >
    > >Could Rousseau's rosy portrayal of nature help provide a
    > background meme for
    > >Mary Shelley?
    >
    > It provided a background meme for the copy I have of Dennett's "Darwin's
    > Dangerous Idea".
    >
    > Rousseau (indeed, almost all and any 'primitive' artist) provide very
    > interesting memes, mostly in that non-arrogant way I appreciate,
    > although, admittedly, psychosis may have replaced arrogance in not a few
    > cases. There is a museum in Baltimore, MD (close to you, Lawrence),
    > called the American Visionary Art Museum, which is a gallery of
    > contemporary and recent primitives. I've been there twice, and recommend
    > it to anyone traveling in that direction. (Although the last time I was
    > in Baltimore, I had to forego my visit to the AVAM and head uptown to the
    > library to attend a reading given by Samuel R. Delany, one of my favorite
    > science-fiction authors, who was serendipitously in town.... So, I could
    > have been there three times, since I've been to Baltimore three times.)
    >
    > - Wade
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