Verdens bedste tidsskrift (med verdens dårligste navn)

er givetvis Art and Literature, med den blærende undertitel "An International Review" der udkom i 12 eksklusive numre 1964-67 redigeret af bl.a. og ikke mindst (i Frankrig dengang bosatte) John Ashbery. Jeg købte den anden dag 3 velholdte, aura-emmende numre, nr. 3 og 5 og 6, til den latterlige pris af 100 kr. pr. stk. i det cool Kirkegaards Antikvariat i Gunløgsgade, ingen ende på de gloriøse navne, der bidrager eller er oversat (af gloriøse oversætternavne), John Cage, André Masson, Georges Bataille, Roland Barthes, Robert Rauscenberg, Öyvind Fahlström (husk at se hans kostelige Bob Hope/Mao-demo-film på Louisianas Pink Caviar-udstilling), Boris Pasternak, David Hockney, Kenneth Kock, Donald Barthelme, Gerard Malanga (Warhols senere indpisker som følsom poet), Antonin Artaud, Max Jacob, Jasper Johns, Laura Riding, foruden Ashbery selv, både som digter og som oversætter, bl.a. af Max Jacobs forunderlige prosadigte fra Raflebægeret:

THE  CENTAUR

Yes! I have met the Centaur! It was on a road in Brittany: the round trees were spaced out over the embankment. He is a café-au-lait color; he has conspucient eyes and his croup is more like the tail of a serpent than the body of a horse. I felt too faint to speak to him and my family, watching us form a distance, was more frightened than I. Oh sun! What mysteries you illuminate around you.

Og fra samme nummer, nr. 3, Autumn - Winter 1964, 2 af John Cages "26 statements re Duchamp" (dengang stadig levende Marcel)

The check. The string he dropped. The Mona Lisa. The musical notes taken out of a hat. The glass. The toy shotgun painting. The things he found. Therefore, everything seen - every object, that is, plus the process of looking at it - is a Duchamp.

Duchamp showed the usefulness of addition (moustache). Rauschenberg showed the function of subtraction (De Kooning). Well, we look forward to multiplication and division. it is safe to assume that someone will learn trigonometry.

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