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Elizabeth Kaye Cook's avatar

I am obsessed with the pre-raphaelites ... love that y'all reference them. Notably, they had a great deal of brilliant women artists, too!

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Juliet Escoria's avatar

In case you cannot tell, I am too! Have you read Desperate Romantics (excellent book about the PRB)? I was reading that a while ago and thinking, "Aw, I want to be a member of a brotherhood... but I am a woman and an only child." So now I am making my dreams come true! I am a brother who is a part of a brotherhood.

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Elizabeth Kaye Cook's avatar

Yes! I love that book. Have you listened to the pre-raphaelite podcast? It's great, though sometimes the audio quality can be a bit iffy. https://the-pre-raphaelite-podcast.podbean.com/

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Mesha Maren's avatar

I’m listening to this right now and it is so good!

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Elizabeth Kaye Cook's avatar

I'm so glad! It's amazing how good their guests are, and how much I've learned from them! The episode "At Home With Jane Morris" is one of my favorites.

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Juliet Escoria's avatar

No! Thank you! excited to listen

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Bart Schaneman's avatar

Amazing

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Josh Boardman's avatar

We Are All Scapegoats, hell yea!!!

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Jeff Tigchelaar's avatar

Sweet! Exciting! Didn't think I'd read/enjoy a manifesto today but I did and am glad. Small steps/acts/resistances/victories are so needed right now. Thank you for caring and doing

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Reterritorialise's avatar

I have some quibbles but an interesting project, let's see how this scene develops.

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Thomas P. Balazs's avatar

I'm with you on everything but, “Art should shock, hurt, offend, intrigue, be a merciless critic of the merciless times we are not only witnessing but whose victims we have become.” —Daša Drndić.

I think art can and often does these things. It should be allowed to. But the "should" gives me pause. It seems to presuppose what art is for in a way that feels incompatible to me with the kind of openness the rest of your manifesto promotes. But I wish you luck on your project, and will be interested to see where you take it.

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Kolina Cicero's avatar

Say less! I’m so excited about this!

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Kier Adrian Gray's avatar

INTO IT

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Lora Eli Tovar's avatar

I’m down.

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Pablo Báez's avatar

I want to join the cult

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Poppy Cockburn's avatar

Me too!

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Juliet Escoria's avatar

ok you are a cult member now. welcome to the brotherhood.

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Jenn's avatar

Fantastic.

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Old Wells Farm's avatar

Yes

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david locke's avatar

“Art should shock, hurt, offend, intrigue, be a merciless critic of the merciless times we are not only witnessing but whose victims we have become.” —Daša Drndić

Yes.

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