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Art-Anti-Art ARTISTS AS CONSUMERS: THE SPLENDID BARGAIN

on Third Programme

Speakers:
Eduardo Paolozzi
Richard Hamilton
Lawrence Alloway
Basil Taylor
* Man of mass civilisation,' said the young Surrealist writers in a previous programme from Paris, ' has made a miserable bargain. He has exchanged his independence and his freedom of spirit for a higher standard of life, for conspicuous consumption.' Theirs is a response of refusal also towards the manifestations of mass culture. One hour's flying-time away, some of their English contemporaries adopt a very different attitude.

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Eduardo Paolozzi
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Richard Hamilton
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Lawrence Alloway
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Basil Taylor

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