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International Association of Art (IAA) News
- Leonardo
- The MIT Press
- Volume 14, Number 2, Spring 1981
- p. 152
- Article
- Additional Information
Leonardo, Vol. 14, No.2, p. 152. Pergamon Press Ltd., 1981. Printed in Great Britain. INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF ART (IAA) NEWS Dunbar Marshall-Malagola Readers interested in further information on the topics in this section should write to Mr. Dunbar Marshall-Malagola, Sec.-Gen.. fAA, Unesco, I Rue Miollis. 75015 Paris, France. A. Current Activities. Since the IXth IAA Congress at Stuttgart, Fed. Rep, Ger., in 1979 [cf. Leonardo 13, 152 (1980)], the following resolutions of the IAA Assembly have been pursued at national and international governmental levels: I. To improve the free movement across national frontiers of artworks by practising visual artists; 2. to develop in more countries legal protection of artists' proceeds rights (droit de suite) on resale of artworks; 3. to press the organizers of art festivals, ofephemeral displays of visual artworks and of plans for multi-purpose urban areas to consult with visual artists as a routine procedure. B. The Manila Declaration In February 1980. the IAA organized, in collaboration with nine other international non-governmental organizations concerned with communal environments and with the Philippines Ministry of Human Settlements, a Symposium entitled Art and the Environment. The participants in the Symposium made the following Declaration on 15 February that is called The Manila Declaration: 'I. The well-being and survival of society-linked with the notion of man's adaptation to change-are henceforth to be regarded as inseparable from development, and development itself must be viewed in its totality-social, technological, economic, physical, cultural, and political included, '2. The place of the arts in communal life is of prime importance, and it is declared that, in order to derive maximum benefit and fulfilment from the arts, life in society must be founded on basic freedoms and on optimum living standards acceptable to individual human groups. '3. Attention is drawn to the threat inherent in any partial or one-sided development, and constant vigilance is needed to contain the negative effects of environmental pollution, visual, aural, physical or other, which can all too easily emerge as the byproduct of development. '4. All individuals and corporate bodies or authorities charged with the creation or organization of human settlements arc reminded of their responsibility for ensuring that their work plans include adequate provision for safeguarding the cultural 152 identity and diversity of the different people who are to occupy them, including minority groups. '5. The Arts have played a prime role in the development of all societies, and the particular art forms and styles inherent in the cultural history of different human groups must be given every opportunity to evolve naturally and to flourish. '6. Creative artists have a responsibility as educators alongside teachers in more general development disciplines, as the custodians of artistic and cultural values which have their roots in the people, '7. Industrial design must be considered a vital and integral part of all development processes. '8. It falls to artists to collaborate on equal terms with scientists, technologists. and other specialists, in all phases of development to ensure that the wholeness of the human personality remains the first consideration. '9. Taking into account the fact that, long before the emergence of civilization, the human species evolved as an integral part of nature, the safeguarding of the whole human person is dependent on maintaining alive a vital interplay between man and his natural surroundings. It follows that the balance of these surroundings must be respected. '10, All programmes with a bearing on the human habitat must be governed by the notion of total development of the human personality with reference to the whole setting of human life,' C. Resolutions of the 21st Unesco General Conference at Belgrade, Yugoslavia This Unesco General Conference met at Belgrade between 22 September and 28 October 1980 and adopted a far-reaching resolution entitled International Recommendations on the Status of the Artist. This Resolution should prove of value whenever artists need legal protection of their rights, The Resolution can be regarded as an Artists' Charter, which has the backing of the 153 member nations of Unesco. D. Xth IAA Congress in 1983 The IAA has received bids to hold this Congress in several nations. The provisional theme of the Congress...