Nazi art?

TownHall.com ^ | Thursday, June 20, 2002 | by George Will

[JohnHuang2]

NEW YORK--An iron law of avant-garde art is that theorizing expands to fill a void of talent. That law explains the execrable exhibit ``Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery/Recent Art,'' now in its final days at the Jewish Museum at the corner of 92nd Street and Fifth Avenue.

The works by 13 ``internationally recognized'' artists make, the museum brochure says, ``new and daring use of imagery taken from the Nazi era.'' In the cant of artists' self-puffery, the word ``daring'' usually means artists are daring to strike political poses that are imbecilic and, among the avant-garde, fashionable. Here the artists daringly draw ``unnerving connections between the imagery of the Third Reich and today's consumer culture.''

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[JohnHuang2]

Thursday, June 20, 2002

Quote of the Day by surely_you_jest

[woofie]

when everything is evil,nothing is evil

[ozzymandus]

Most Nazi art I've seen in history books is pretty hokey, like Soviet art. Happy peasants in the fields, muscle-men staring off into the distance, etc. The "artists" are just trying to exploit the shock value of throwing around the word "Nazi".

[SkyPilot]

John,

I saw some of the original artwork that Adolph Hitler produced. It was very strange to view it. Here is arguably the most evil man in history, and he produced half-way decent drawings and watercolors.

I kept thinking, "How could someone who could paint this nice picture have been so evil?"

But, evil he was.

[JohnHuang2]

Morning, amigo.

[section9]

Actually, Hitler's "body count" places him in third place behind Mao and Stalin.

So, "third most evil".

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[SkyPilot]

Actually, Hitler's "body count" places him in third place behind Mao and Stalin.

That can't be??? In my Social Studies 5th grade class, Mrs. Dutton had us do skits celebrating "The Great Leap Forward" and Uncle Joe. I made a 5' x 4' poster of tractor production that one me a pin of Stalin in his workers cap (no joke).

We had a male substitute teacher once who called Communism a "plague, an evil plague that spreads through murder."

Luckily, our Assistant Principal was alerted to this by several good 5th graders who told on him...and we never heard from THAT teacher again.

Good thing too! Can you imagine where our socially aware young minds may have wandered under teaching like his?


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