Talk:Anthony Hancock Paintings and Sculptures: A Retrospective Exhibition
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An earlier version of this article was copied from [1] (http://www.atlaspress.co.uk/theLIP/dora-hancock.html). It has since been rewritten. Martin 17:44 7 Jun 2003 (UTC)
Harry, you cannot just copy material from other websites as you did with Anthony Hancock Paintings and Sculptures: A Retrospective Exhibition. If you continue with this behavior you can expect to eventually be banned from Wikipedia. If you are the original author of that material at http://www.atlaspress.co.uk/theLIP/dora-hancock.html you need to make a note of that in the References section at the bottom of the page. Fred Bauder 09:13 31 May 2003 (UTC)
E-mail from London Institute of Pataphysics
Dear Wikipedants!
Thank you for the notification of the appearance of the London Institute of Pataphysics in your scholarly enterprise! I (we) have no objection to your using material from the LIP section of the Atlas Press website.... However, I should like to add a few comments to the discussion. I am probably not sending this to the correct place so would be grateful if you would post it there.
Firstly, I am surprised there is no mention of the College de Pataphysique in the Wikipedia. A more venerable institution than the Institute it has been publishing, without fail, a quarterly magazine since 1950, an amazing achievement and one which should make evident once and for all that PATAPHYSICS IS NOT SIMPLY A JOKE! The London Institute is affiliated to the College along with around a dozen others worldwide.
Members of the College included Queneau (an encyclopedist, among
other things!), Ernst, Leiris, the Marx Brothers, Cortazar, Duchamp, Picabia, Fontana, Ionesco, Dubuffet, Jorn, Arnaud, Vian, Ferry, Perec, Prevert, among many others. Its current membership numbers around 1000, amidst whom can be found Arrabal, Eco, Baudrillard etc. The College has a rather small and poorly maintained website at: pata.obspm.fr
The article on Pataphysics in the English section of the magazine is pataphysical. Which leaves me free to disagree with most of it! (and Faustroll has two "l"s by the way). It's no worse than many, and not as good as some. The LIP is shortly to publish a book of Definitions and Citations of Pataphysics from 69 authors from 1888 to the present day.
The article on Pataphysique in the French section is incorrect in several respects. In particular the third paragraph. In which I point out these factual errors: The College was founded in 1948, Alfred Jarry died in 1907! He therefore had nothing to do with its foundation (except inspirational). The Cahiers were the first of four series of the College's magazine, and ran from 1950-1957, and were therefore not published by Jarry either. The Oulipo, originally a sub-commission of the college was founded in 1960 and its first writings constituted issue 17 (december 1961) of the "Dossiers", the second series of College publications. My French is not up to correcting this article but I can contact colleagues in France to do so if required.
Best wishes
Alastair Brotchie
The intention of HPs creation of this aritcle is to deliberatly cause confusion and useless debate about the existance of an artist called Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock. But this name is a fictional creation. In reality the British comedian Tony Hancock (full name Anthony John Hancock) created a character on film who was the artist in question. There can be no retrospective exhibition of his artwork because those pieces of art were infact created as nothing more than film props for the film the Rebel[2] (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0055361). Mintguy