Audio file 116-2

Wonga expresses his opinion of Salvadore Dali

[tape stopped and restarts] Ernest says his father worked in the Kimberly diamond mines and the gold mines, and that he will speak of it later

[tape stopped and restarts] He speaks of a special issue of Le Monde dated 1st January which argues that artists' role is to present everyday life, not to change or explain it. Wonga is against this argument of the death of art (citing Hegel)

Wonga states that, in contrast, Linien, Dada, Surrealism, were balanced in life and death because they did not impose one way of art; that Duchamp's readymades are not evidence of the death of art

Wonga reports on a television programme on Karen Blixen which included an interview with Cluver (sic) Jensen of Louisiana Museum who knew Sonja - that art should not just be the intellectual and exclude emotion

Wonga feels that artists should not take direction from museum directors, historians, intellectuals who know better than artists what is good for artists

Wonga believes everyone should be able to distinguish between entertainment and art

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