The headline on the paper is very poignant.
Posted on 11/18/2001 12:38:53 PM PST by almajur
Edited on 04/23/2004 12:03:54 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
In case you haven't noticed, well-wishers at the New York Times have been trying to soothe your shaken psyche of late. In a recent series of full-page house ads running with their post-Sept. ll coverage, the Times has offered readers the salve of mid-century images from the idyllic archive of the late Norman Rockwell..images that, at second glance, sport timel, digital pdates of war-on-terror themes. The idea behind the campaign, according to the Times and its licensers with the Rockwell estate, is to juxtapose the past and the present..and, well, to borrow a little iconic gravitas for the Times as it sells itself to the world. "Freedom From Fear" shows two parents solemnly tucking their children in bed as the father carries a newspaper..now the Times front page of Sept. l2, 2001..recounting wartime horror. Surrounded by white space, the image appears well above the campaign's understated slogan: "Make sense of our times".
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Dismissed because his art depicted an America they don't care to see.
I think the answer is a resounding "YES." At least, if Rockwell had never existed.
And isn't augmentation-by-pixel an artistic slight?
This is pretty heavily-debated stuff in snooty artistic circles these days, actually. I'm reminded of some rap guy who was quoted a while back saying something along the lines of, "We've been making music for 100 years. Now it's time to start sampling it."
Happy Thanksgiving...Hope you are free from want!
FMCDH
"Fashionable art critics once had nothing but disdain for Norman Rockwell, labeling his idealized view of America as "Gee-Gosh-Shucksism." But Rockwell's work is enjoying a resurgence of respect; critics like him again—and even "admit it in polite society"
What is the anatomy of deep love of country?
Take another look at his prints.
Every person depicted is an American-American.
Not one trace of a culture based on a hyphenated foreign origin .
Some people living in the USA are so insidiously proud of their hyphenated heritage that they have decayed into a split allegience to the land of their ancestors and often prioritize that nation's self interests rather than Americas.
Nathan Hale would be scoffed at or ridiculed as being an American Firster...
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