Post by Silky on Mar 10, 2006 11:39:23 GMT
CNPD Statement -
Following heated discussions between artist James Cauty and the CNPD's
marketing team regarding the worthiness of February's Stamps of the
Month, the CNPD Postmaster General has ordered an immediate and total
withdrawal of The Great 1967 Postal Revolution Commemorative Stamps.
The heated discussion is reported to have gone something like this:
"They're rubbish" said James Cauty, "Just decorative twaddle!"
"Yeah... but so what?" replied the marketing team, "They're selling and
we need the cash!"
An official statement from the CNPD reads:
We are an artist lead institution and have decided to comply fully with
Cauty's demands that the stamps in question be withdrawn from sale. We
think it important that artists as a minority are listened to and are
keen to see that no more puerile art is hoisted on an already saturated
market. For those that have already bought the Revolution Stamps, we
can only offer our full apology and offer to refund anyone who wishes
to return them.
As a result of this dispute our planned Stamp of the Month for March
has also been binned whilst Cauty re-thinks his creative direction and
researches a little known avant-garde art group known as the Armchair
Destructivists. We will however be issuing a poster edition only print
of the 'Copyright Police" piece that Cauty thinks might be OK. This
will be issued for just one day at the end of the month.
Full details will be issued by the PMG very soon.
Following heated discussions between artist James Cauty and the CNPD's
marketing team regarding the worthiness of February's Stamps of the
Month, the CNPD Postmaster General has ordered an immediate and total
withdrawal of The Great 1967 Postal Revolution Commemorative Stamps.
The heated discussion is reported to have gone something like this:
"They're rubbish" said James Cauty, "Just decorative twaddle!"
"Yeah... but so what?" replied the marketing team, "They're selling and
we need the cash!"
An official statement from the CNPD reads:
We are an artist lead institution and have decided to comply fully with
Cauty's demands that the stamps in question be withdrawn from sale. We
think it important that artists as a minority are listened to and are
keen to see that no more puerile art is hoisted on an already saturated
market. For those that have already bought the Revolution Stamps, we
can only offer our full apology and offer to refund anyone who wishes
to return them.
As a result of this dispute our planned Stamp of the Month for March
has also been binned whilst Cauty re-thinks his creative direction and
researches a little known avant-garde art group known as the Armchair
Destructivists. We will however be issuing a poster edition only print
of the 'Copyright Police" piece that Cauty thinks might be OK. This
will be issued for just one day at the end of the month.
Full details will be issued by the PMG very soon.
