APPROACHES - In The Words Of . . . .
From: Ferrier, Jean-Louis, Director and Yann le Pichon, Walter D. Glanze [English Translation]. Art of Our Century, The Chronicle of Western Art, 1900 to the Present. New York: Prentice-Hall Editions. 1988.
I bring to the new revolution what is mine: that is, my paranoid method of criticism, uniquely adapted, it seems to me, to the felicitously irrational nature of the events unfolding. In the light of this method, I offer the following suggestions:
Color
The color of modern cultural revolutions is no longer red, but an amethyst color, evoking the air, the sky, fluidity. This is the color that corresponds to a change in era. The age of Aquarius, which will determine the next millenium, will see the disappearance of bloodshed. For the time being, we have just assassinated The Fish ["God is dead!"], and the blue sea is tinted by his blood, giving the waves this amethyst color.
Structure
Bourgeois culture can only be replaced vertically. Culture will be disembourgeoised only by deproletarizing society and turning the functions of the mind upward, by redirecting them toward their transcendent and legitimate divine origin. An aristocracy of the mind must emerge . . .
Quantified Institutions
Add a quantum of libido to antipleasure organizations such as UNESCO. Make UNESCO a ministry of public Cretinization, so that we will not lose what has already been done. Blend in some laudable folkloric prostitution, but add to it a strong dose of libidinal and spiritual energy. Thus transform this center of superbordedom into a genuine erogenous zone under the auspices of Saint Louis, chief legislator of venal love.
Justice
Activation of cybernetic-research commissions for the resurrection and glorification of great thoughts that have fallen victim to materialism. Examples: the combinative wheels of Raymond Lulle, the natural theology of Raymond de Sebonde, the treatise of Paracelsus, Guadí's architecture of Mediterranean Gothic inspiration, Francesco Pyiols' hyperaxiology, Raymond Roussels' anti-Jules Verne poetics, the theoreticians of traditional mystical thought, all those who are genuinely inspired ....
Note: Where the cultural revolution goes, the fantastic should sprout up.
Paris, Saturday, May 18, 1968.
Salvador Dali [Excerpt]
[An Exerpt From: Ferrier, Jean-Louis, Director and Yann le Pichon, Walter D. Glanze [English Translation]. Art of Our Century, The Chronicle of Western Art, 1900 to the Present. New York: Prentice-Hall Editions. 1988. p. 651]
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