Posted on 05/01/2006 7:53:22 PM PDT by Mia T
(just when you thought the clintons couldn't get any more shameless... or tacky....)
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WRITTEN IN STONE: AN ARCHITECT DEFINES THE CLINTONS
by Mia T, 12-30-02
Whereas a huckster removes meaning from institutions--the wife picked up where the husband left off--an architect encodes meaning in buildings. James S. Polshek, the architect with the dubious distinction of having been commissioned to build the William J. Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock, Arkansas, believes that a successful architectural solution must necessarily be rooted in relevance.
Just as Polshek's buildings have physical layers, so too do they have layers of meaning. His Rose Center for Earth and Space, for example, is informed formally and programmatically by the historic architecture of a designated landmark even as it redefines itself, (often too self-consciously, in my view), in Star-Trekian terms. Reduced to its essence, the building is the nascent universe before the Big Bang, the promise of the undifferentiated cell in its mother's womb.
The "bridge to the 21st century" was, perhaps, clinton's most delusional conceit, so it is not surprising that it would become clinton's self-referential metaphor of choice. His library was to be that bridge, if he had anything to say about it...
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The architect is often the master of the inside joke, witness Robert Venturi's postmodern chairs. Venturi exploited--unabashedly and with abandon--the vocabulary of Las Vegas, its stage-set-as-reality and its roadside culture--bright, clashing, ugly and fake. The architect's inside joke is his hedge against the sycophancy that comes with patronage.
The flip side of the encoded meaning of the architect is the terrorist's decoding of it. To bin Laden, the World Trade Center was Jewish capitalism encoded in urban space. If Polshek's vision of clinton's library is a bridge, the inside joke is that, at best, it is a bridge to nowhere.
More likely, it is a bridge to the 7th century...or a doublewide to house clinton double-speak. Take your choice.
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***This is: The sticker was also branded with what I immediately recognized as the logo of the Clinton Presidential Center. Bubba's library is selling "I Miss Bill" merchandise.***
It is slow loading on dial-up so I will ask one queation. Did it have an open mouth lipstick kiss on it?
The artist-for-hire encodes the inside joke in his work. The joke's efficacy is directly related to its decodability. If it is too obvious, or if it is too obscure, it doesn't work. Whereas the latter error is often harmless, the former is almost always fatal: If the joke is too obvious, the work of art, itself, becomes the punch line. The clinton library, which shimmies in the hot Arkansas sun like a trailer park or a bridge to nowhere depending on where you stand, suffers from this kind of failure.1 Nelson Shanks' portrait of bill clinton, which was unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery on Monday, is similarly flawed. Its jokes are so obvious, in fact, that when clinton ceremoniously pulled off its cover at the unveiling, what was exposed was not a portrait at all but a full-blown punch line. What we saw.... HEY CLINTON! SIZE DOESN'T MATTER. |
The 'Coney Island Whitefish" are sold wrapped in the NY Times or the washington compost..
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Put one on your front bumper and add an "ed" to the word "miss."
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LOL
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"SELF-AGGRANDIZING CHACHKAS FOR SALE AT CLINTON "MUSEUM" STORE"
Is there ANYTHING about Bill 'n Hill that ISN'T aggrandizing?
I missed Bill too, but I'm reloading.
He was playin' the Sax, and yukking it up, a good time was had by all, Clinton White House employees were blue-jean clad slobs that defaced the White House on their way out.
What did Clinton do? He blew up an embassy and an aspirin factory. He wagged his finger, bit his lower lip, looked into the camera and he LIED to America about his malfeasance, then he perjured himself, then he was disbarred and impeached. Bill Clinton was the pied-piper of America's Loony-left. leading the sad-sack losers down the path of moral turpitude and those folks ain't ever coming back.
WHY DID BILL CLINTON IGNORE TERRORISM?
I don't know... But I don't trust his shrew of a wife. So... Delete Hillary A.S.A.P. deletehillary.com/terrorism.htm [deletehillary.com]
CC&E
indeed and thx.
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