I agree of course Michale. But there is the interesting question of the aesthetic value of the painting and the notion of aesthetic autonomy. I am currently reading Hans Urs von Balthasar on the aesthetic and wondering how that would apply to this painting. It offers such a radical separation of the beautiful from the true and the good. I am no expert at all on painting, but it seems to me that the painting is a fair to mediocre endeavour in the British Academy style. But it makes a number of truth claims centering around a narrative of the colonist as victim or near victrim. there are a few black figures sq
On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 11:45 AM Michael Meeropol <[email protected]> wrote: > One has to read this article more than once to realize it is not a fucking > satirical caricature but a "heartfelt" defense of the indefensible -- > > The conquest of South Africa by both the Afrikaners and the British was an > invasion with massacre after massacre following one upon the other --- if > the Zulu slaughtered by the Boers at the Battle of Blood River and those > defeated by the British decades later had won, there would not have been an > Apartheid State --- just as if Tecumseh had beaten William Henry Harrison, > there might have been a very different "America" created in the 19th > century --- > > settler imperialism was a crime against humanity and this ridiculous > posturing by the journalist reveals how sensitive the intellectual > defenders of those conquests are ---- The painting in question is not being > defaced, not being torn down --- it is being CONTEXTUALIZED so that people > who see it can understand the true history it is depicting -- > > UGH! > > On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 3:28 PM Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Direct from the "Axis of Resistance", colonial garbage. >> >> https://www.rt.com/op-ed/510147-queen-painting-zulu-rorke-drift/ >> >> >> >> > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#4667): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/4667 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/79111759/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
