Me, I hope that I’m crazy…
“So which artist used to paint naked at his easel with pins stuck through his penis? Is it possible to walk out from a warehouse art-show and plunge to your death? Matthew’s wired and rushy art history, alternately irritating and insightful, gives late 20th century Britart what it needs – a confusing, loony relevance.”
Ten well-informed BowieNetters identified the text above as a quote from David Bowie regarding Matthew Collings’ book; ‘Blimey! From Bohemia to Britpop: the London Artworld from Francis Bacon to Damien Hirst’. They identified it because we asked them to in the competition we set last week, (02/19/02 NEWS: WIN MATTHEW COLLINGS’ ART CRAZY NATION) and they are listed below:
tess@davidbowie.com
kiarrith@davidbowie.com
psaudino@davidbowie.com
amgunn@davidbowie.co.uk
joyjo@davidbowie.com
zimmie@davidbowie.com
piccadilly@davidbowie.com
gothicrock@davidbowie.com
kcgrady@davidbowie.com
corinap@davidbowie.com
Postmistress Susans will send each of you a copy of Matthew Collings’ most entertaining ‘Art Crazy Nation: the post-Blimey! Art World’, as soon as you have furnished her with your address, and then you can find out for yourselves what sort of a madman would paint without clothing with pins through his doo dah!