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...Copenhagen, the Baptist World Alliance had wound up its meeting (the first since 1939) on a lofty note. The 5,000 delegates from 49 countries adopted a ringing manifesto: "It is our first duty to extend the rights of conscience to all people, irrespective of their race, color, sex or religion...
...been 23 years since Poet Andre Breton rattled the saucers in Left Bank cafes with his "First Manifesto of Surrealism," a compound of Freudianism and calculated nonsense. In those days, Marcel Duchamp (who drew U.S. catcalls in 1913 with his Nude Descending the Staircase) got high critical acclaim when he filled a birdcage full of marble cubes, stuck in a thermometer, and entitled it Why Not Sneeze? Duchamp and Breton had worked together for months assembling the screwy props for last week's screwy show...
Poet Breton, who says that Surrealism (like himself) is now disillusioned with the Communism it once embraced, had a new manifesto. Its theme: "Dreams and revolutions should enter a pact. To dream of a revolution is . . . to carry it out with double strength. . . . Surrealism is what will be." Observers discounted the big talk. Said one: "After the gas chambers, those heaps of bones and teeth and shoes and eyeglasses, what is there left for the poor Surrealists to shock us with...
Just 25 years ago the three revolutionaries had joined in a manifesto whose shot was heard round the art world. The signers declared joint war on easel painting, which they regarded as essentially aristocratic because it ended up on rich people's walls. Their own murals, on the other hand, would have "beauty for all, beauty that enlightens and stirs to struggle." But for all their puffing, and for all their sometimes great murals, the School of Paris and its effete paintings were not wiped off the earth. In fact, Mexico's new generation is being lured away...
...indicated, and that was a direct slap at Rivera, who had become deeply interested in Indian dances and folk art. Rivera plugged a plan to turn Mexico City into a great capital of art. To Orozco this meant turning Mexico City into a tourist trap. The three rewrote Manifesto II more than 15 times before publishing it last week. Then Diego Rivera read it to Mexico's arty intellectuals, solemnly gathered at the home of Siqueiros' mother-in-law, after which sympathetic younger painters added a few words of their own. Excerpts: "Once America reflected movements in European...