BORIS LURIE:
To Wolf Vostell
April 4th 1998
—This
of the German art-trick machers'
artists-stupids'
could be, un-beloved also mocked at
purely German of the heavy pieces
Heavyweightler—
Arian, the Jew the Chossid
...sorrow... sorrow
left his NEIN!kunst-NO!art bleeding crutches
at the other shore, this River's
let them loose, to make them start/go runningand we should, as much as we can
towards unity of of the un-business
life-death suppressed art-of-Really
from this feast, of the River
with our this side crying muscles
helpful be Wolf Vostell.Aren't we then—all
into his cheek-hairs' Peyuss
hard as concrete
Vostell-hard-like
hooked inside.English version Source: NO!art Show No 3, catalog, New York, 1998
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About BORIS LURIE: Born in 1924, in Leningrad, Russia. Together with his parents he moved to Riga in 1925/26. Captured by the Germans 1941 and suffered in the ghettos and concentration-camps of Riga, Salapils, Stutthof and Buchenwald-Magdeburg in Germany. Emigration to USA in 1946. Lived in Paris from 1954 to 1955. Founded with Sam Goodman and Stanley Fisher the NO!art movement in 1959 in co-operation with the March gallery in the Tenth Street in New York, later so called March Group. He works always in continuing the NO!art movement.—Died 2008 in New York. ►more
