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Beggars of the Sea
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Beggars of the Sea: see Gueux Gueux (gö) [Fr.,=beggars], 16th-century Dutch revolutionary party.
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In one of the show's few ironic gestures, the artists' group De Geuzen, from Holland, contributed Democracy, a doormat to welcome visitors, but for the most part this decidedly earnest exhibition charted out a hybrid resurgence of '70s-style activist art.
More telling is the broad-rimmed hat onto which he has affixed a crescent-shaped badge - the mark of the Dutch Geuzen (Gueux or Beggars), the shock troops of the rebel army and vanguard of the patriotic party.
 
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