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Art poll#1 is CLOSED
FINAL SCORE:
B: SARAH MILROY=8
A: SALLY MCKAY=4
(damn, I can't even win my own poll! Well you haven't heard the last of me....I'll be baaaaaack.)
Judy Radul's Empathy with the Victor, at Toronto's Power Plant:
A: a thrilling, chilling existential experience? (sally mckay)
or
B: one that makes you numb with boredom? (sarah milroy)
post your vote in the comments below. Explanations and elaborations welcome but not required. Anonymous posts and fake names a-okay, but you can only vote once.
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Thanks to friend BSL for the following quotes from lefty cartoonist Ted Rall on Common Dreams
CARQUEFOU, FRANCE -- Why do they hate us? And where do they get their hatred from?
These questions haunted me and three other American visitors as we studied a huge display of cartoons drawn by local schoolchildren assigned to convey their impressions of the United States. Panel after grisly panel depicted the United States ... as murderous, predatory and gleefully vicious.
We repeatedly explained that there's more to the United States than George Bush. We pointed out that most voters supported Gore in the last election, that hundreds of thousands of Americans marched against the war. We argued that Americans are kind, big-hearted people. French attendees listened politely, and we were treated with the utmost kindness and hospitality, but their kids' cartoons screamed: we hate you. That hurt.
From Better to Have Loved, by Judith Merril and Emily Pohl-Weary, Between the Lines, Toronto, 2002. pp.208.
I did not want to be a Canadian nationalist, I did not even want to see nationalism increase in Canada. I feel that, to the extent that I am a Canadian nationalist, I am so because of my anti-American tendencies. Interestingly, that sentiment is the same one that keeps me from being a whole-hearted Canadian nationalist. When I left the United States, nationalism had reached the status of religion. I would even say nationalism had become the new American religion.
Canadian Art Quote #1
Dot Tuer
From Dot Tuer's essay, "Is it Still Priviledged Art? The Polictics of Class and Collaboration in the Art Practice of Carol Conde and Karl Beveridge" in the anthology But is it Art? The Spirit of Art as Activism, Seattle: Bay Press, 1995.
Known as the Massey Report, this Royal Commission presented recommendations to the Parliament in 1957 that formalized a role for subsidized culture as the guardian angel of national identity and led to the founding of the federal funding agency for the arts, the
Canada Council. In the process, it also drew a dividing line between high art and popular culture - the former designated as Canadian and in need of state patronage, the latter as the vulgar materialism of an American consumerism in need of state regulation. Positioning state funding of the arts as simultaneously anti-imperialist and anti-populist, this policy officially sanctioned distrust of mass culture and initiated a series of contradictions between elitism and democratization of the arts that deepened over time.*
* For further analysis see Dot Tuer, "The Art of Nation Building: Constructing a Cultural Identity for Post-War Canada," Parallélogramme, 17 #4, (Spring 1992): 24-36.