Comments on: how do you paint “over the top”? http://www.uncarved.org/blog/2004/06/how-do-you-paint-over-the-top/ John Eden: BM Box 3641, London, WC1N 3XX, England UK Sun, 25 Dec 2011 14:50:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: john http://www.uncarved.org/blog/2004/06/how-do-you-paint-over-the-top/comment-page-1/#comment-22 john Wed, 22 Jun 2005 16:10:41 +0000 http://www.uncarved.org/blog/?p=397#comment-22 John Manifestos: http://www.391.org/manifestos/1959metzger.htm http://www.391.org/manifestos/1960metzger.htm 2004/06/03 @ 05:10 pm dubversion much as i agree with your reservations about the conclusions marcello has lept to, i was sickened by the amount of reactionary crap printed across a broad spectrum of the papers relating to the Saatchi fire... there was a nauseating smugness to it all (as i noticed from my sunlounger on Rodos :) ) 2004/06/03 @ 05:12 pm John Perhaps, but it's just as reactionary to say that the only "proper" responses to the destruction of art can be silence or hand wringing at the tragedy of it all. 2004/06/04 @ 03:59 pm John a bit old now, but: on 'not being an artist': http://uncarved.org/jetexts/art.html 2004/06/04 @ 04:02 pm Stelfox this was all quite potty. luckily enough myself and marcello seem to have resolved our little spat but it's a shame it came up anyway. from now on i am going to write about nothing but girls aloud and dancehall. it causes less problems! 2004/06/05 @ 10:17 am John Eden Yeah, I was glad to see that, and at least it reminded me about Herr Metzger! 2004/06/05 @ 11:18 am John
Manifestos:

http://www.391.org/manifestos/1959metzger.htm

http://www.391.org/manifestos/1960metzger.htm
2004/06/03 @ 05:10 pm

dubversion
much as i agree with your reservations about the conclusions marcello has lept to, i was sickened by the amount of reactionary crap printed across a broad spectrum of the papers relating to the Saatchi fire… there was a nauseating smugness to it all (as i noticed from my sunlounger on Rodos :) )
2004/06/03 @ 05:12 pm

John
Perhaps, but it’s just as reactionary to say that the only “proper” responses to the destruction of art can be silence or hand wringing at the tragedy of it all.
2004/06/04 @ 03:59 pm

John
a bit old now, but: on ‘not being an artist’:
http://uncarved.org/jetexts/art.html
2004/06/04 @ 04:02 pm

Stelfox
this was all quite potty. luckily enough myself and marcello seem to have resolved our little spat but it’s a shame it came up anyway. from now on i am going to write about nothing but girls aloud and dancehall. it causes less problems!
2004/06/05 @ 10:17 am

John Eden
Yeah, I was glad to see that, and at least it reminded me about Herr Metzger!
2004/06/05 @ 11:18 am

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