Hello ARLIS-L,
A faculty person who is in the final stage of editing a reader on Graphic
Design Theory is having trouble verifying 2 quotations.

If anyone has a good set of resources on these two people, or access to a
subject specialist who might be able to pinpoint the origin, please take a
crack at it. I've listed some possible sources, which we don't own, for the
Paris-Clavel quote.

Thank you for any assistance!

Kathy Cowan
Decker Library, Maryland Institute College of Art
Tel: 410-225-2714
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Fax: 410-225-2316


1) Walter Benjamin

The quote:
"One should not look at cultural archetypes as timeless essences, but as the
result of concrete social and economic relations. The specious illusions of
harmony and unity in the bourgeois notion of culture should be destroyed
first to expose what it is in reality: a heap of rubbish of stereotypes and
clichés, fragments that have piled against ruins."

* * We've gotten hold of Richard Wolin's Walter Benjamin: An Aesthetic of
Redemption which was cited in an article found in JSTOR that used similar
phrasing but it didn't provide an answer. And we've looked through the
Benjamin anthologies we have on hand (Illuminations, Reflections, and The
Arcades Project) and have found lots of similar themes throughout, but
haven't spotted this paragraph.


2) Gerard Paris-Clavel
[founded influential French graphic design studio Grapus in 1970, with
Pierre Bernard and Francois Miehe. The studio was closed in 1991]

The quote:
"...goal is to raise a critical attitude, raise questions about reality,
curiosity."

* * A source we have already reviewed:
"Ne Pas Plier (Do Not Fold)"
Affiche, no. 12, pp. 9, Winter 1994-1995

* * Sources that could include this quote (or from which the above may be a
paraphrase) are:

"Reputations. Gerard Paris-Clavel" by Held, Ursula.
In: Eye, vol. 7, no. 27, pp. 10-16, Spring 1998

"Theories look good on paper" by Twemlow, Alice.
In: Eye, vol. 7, no. 27, pp. 85, Spring 1998

"After the shouting – the post Grapus generation" by Banham, Stephen
In: Baseline, no. 29, pp. 5-12, 1999

"“Ne Pas Plier” and Gerard Paris-Clavel" by Kikuchi, Masami and Hirayama,
Yoshio
In: Idea, vol. 44, no. 254, pp. 72-77, Jan 1996

"Gerard Paris-Clavel"
In: Idea, vol. 41, no. 240, pp. 40-41, Sep 1993

"What's left...?" by Wlassikoff, Michael
In: Affiche, no. 7, pp. 36-47, Sep 1993

"Letter from Paris" by Weidemann, Barbara
In: Design Statements, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 18-20, Summer 1992

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