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Canadian Art Quote #2
Andrew J. Paterson
From the preface of Money, Value, Art: State Funding, Free Markets, Big Pictures, YYZ Books, Toronto, 2001.
If economic dependency on the United States was already a foregone conclusion by the beginning of the 1950s, then Canadian distinction from the expanding American empire had to be asserted in a different domain. The cultural realm provided an excellent opportunity. Beginning with the 1941 Artists' Conference in Kingston, Ontario, the Federation of Canadian Artists and other arts-funding advocates "invoked the national interest as the best strategy for defending and advancing the boundaries of what they understood as culture" *, perhaps with a utopian fervour and perhaps strategically. Indeed, coalitions of visual and performing artists of the time tended not to position themselves as autonomous modernist artists. Instead, they engaged in discourses concerning democracy, culture, nation building, and public space. They worked alongside agrarian and labour activists, proto-feminists, and even popular entertainers.
*Jody Berland, "Nationalism and the Modernist Legacy: Dialogues with Innis," in Capital Culture: A Reader on Modern Legacies, State Institutions, and the Value(s) of Art, Jody Berland and Shelly Hornstein, eds. (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000): 27.
If you can stand to hear even more about Howard Dean's so-called "scream," there's an interesting thread going on here at dratfink, including this link to video of the speech shot by someone in the audience.
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.