Now, watch this:
Video by Radical Jesters
Peter Schumann is the founder of the Bread & Puppet theater…at home for nearly 40 years now on a farm right next door in Glover, Vermont.
Bread & Puppet’s Cheap Art Manifesto reads, in part: “Because art is food…”
Cheap Art Philosophy
The Cheap Art movement was launched in 1982 by the Bread and Puppet Theater in direct response to the business of art and its growing appropriation by the corporate sector. With this fact taken into account art becomes: “political whether you like it or not…”
Cheap Art hopes to reestablish the appreciation of artistic creation by making it available to a wider audience and inspire anyone to revel in an art making process that is not subject to academic approval or curatorial acceptance.
2 comments
Comments feed for this article
August 6, 2008 at 6:43 pm
David
I loved that video! Thanks so much for posting it. (That’s a spiffy little player too.)
What a wonderful philosophy: Cheap Art. It looks so subversive! And yet so ordinary. I ∞ ♥ that!!
I think you would really like the masks and puppets in the museum. OR be creeped out by them. Or really like being creeped out by them.
August 13, 2008 at 11:52 am
cantueso
I only see a notice saying “The video that you are trying to watch cannot be viewed on this website”.
I am only telling you so that you know. I would not watch it anyway, because though I am on a broadband access, now, when it is 6 pm here, it is 12 noon. there and things slow down so much that videos come in like Charlie Chaplin movies.
Too bad, cantueso! Peter is a very interesting guy with good ideas about art and its place in life. It’s interesting that we are not seeing the video blocked here.