CHAMPOY wrote:
.THAT ART should be nATIONALISTIC...it would really help me
> to hear what you have to say especially most of you
> who come from different NATIONALITIES?
>
Nations and races tend to be tyrannical when they are interested in
purity, in Themselves. This holds true no matter what color or
hemisphere these nations are. Myself, the folks come from Norway, a
place that has historically been so poor that people have been
out-migrating for 1500 years or more. Traditionally we leave, land
somewhere, marry the local folks and disappear. Ireland, Normandy,
Russia, all kinds of places have been refuges for the Norwegian
diaspora, also largely Americas and Canada, and the place hasn't
actually been a nation for most of its history. It got independence in
1905. There are many millions more descendants of Norwegians that live
all over the world (I have second cousins that are Canadian, Oaxacan,
Spanish--) than Norwegians who live in Norway. If there is any
attachment to the identity, it's attachment to a physical place, an
ecosystem, a landmass, not to a political entity.
Nationalist art has a lousy track record, both as art and as politics.
The notion of the international, from the ground up, has had a much
better run.
AK
