Total Refusal
The Total Refus is a artistic Manifeste published on August 9th, 1948 in Quebec by Automatistes. Its author, Paul-Emile Borduas, calls in question the traditional values and rejects the opposition to progress of the Québécois company of the time. He is more radical than Prisme of eyes launched a few front months.
The document
A book, published in 400 specimens, contains in entry proclamation itself just as eight other texts and several illustrations. In this prose one can read there a description without kindness of the company:
Small tight people of close with the cassocks remained only agents of the faith, the knowledge, the truth and the national wealth. Held with the variation of the universal evolution of the thought full with risks and dangers, educated without unwillingness, but without control, in the false judgment of the great facts of the history when complete ignorance is impracticable.
Co-signatories
The use
So at the time of its launching the proclamation received little echo, its importance increased with the use that one made some thereafter. The Total Refusal became a Référence. (In the same way: the Quiet revolution, the Québécois Model).
Twenty years, fifty years after the year of his launching, one questions oneself compared to him,
In 1998 for example, the Prix Condorcet was given “To all the signatories of the Total Refusal”.
The same year, Manon Barbeau launched film: Children of Total Refusal.
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