"first use of modern art as a deliberate form of torture"

[pynchonoid]

"A Spanish art historian has uncovered what was
alleged to be the first use of modern art as a
deliberate form of torture, with the discovery that
mind-bending prison cells were built by anarchist
artists 65 years ago during the country's bloody civil
war. Bauhaus artists such as Kandinsky, Klee and
Itten, as well as the surrealist film-maker Luis
Bunuel and his friend Salvador Dali, were said to be
the inspiration behind a series of secret cells and
torture centres built in Barcelona and elsewhere,
yesterday's El Pais newspaper reported.  Most were the
work of an enthusiastic French anarchist, Alphonse
Laurencic, who invented a form of "psychotechnic"
torture, according to the research of the historian
Jose Milicua. "

read it all:
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,883075,00.html>


-Doug


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