It's Art Depreciation Day for Homeschoolers, as we learn from our 10th-Grade textbook, World History and Cultures In Christian Perspective. After polishing off the dangerous liberal fads of "philosphy" and "education" last week, we're now ready to learn all about how godless liberals tried to wreck culture through their pernicious effects on the arts!
A performance of 4′33″ would probably send these people into fits as the silence, THE SILENCE, drove them mad, unleashing the full force of their cognitive dissonance to wreak havoc on their psyches.
Ah, I love it when the Christers and Teabaggers get confused about art styles. Abstraction = Radical Politics! Rockwell = Conservative! Fuckin illiterates.
Norman Rockwell: lifelong, ardent progressive. Painted impassioned artworks about civil rights and racial equality when the aesthetic avant-garde was stone silent.
Smoking, drinking, fornication. The teachers probably have to explain what those things are to their students, who wouldn't encounter such behavior in conservative Pleasantville.
This posting was enlightening. I now understand why my odd neighbor who advocates home skooling believes that a Paula Dean cookbook and the latest edition of Field and Stream constitutes her interpretation of coffee table books.
Wait a minute...wasn't dadaism a response to a war where Christians on both sides were ground to a powder while their Christian generals and politician declared god was on their side?
I can certainly understand why they&#039;d be hatin&#039; on Kafka. After all, <em>The Trial</em> does indicate a certain distaste for an authoritarian system acting arbitrarily, whereas the Christianists absolutely need their little people to be accepting Because I Said So as a definitive answer.
<blockquote>The rest of the sins of literary liberals are mostly laid at the feet of early 20th Century writers who were blinded to the awfulness of Stalin, with no mention of any liberals who later changed their views or condemned him from the start, because apparently that never happened.&amp;lt;/blockquote
What delicious irony that they attempt to flush <em>1984</em> down the memory hole.</blockquote>
ETA: Bah, should&#039;ve read the whole piece. I&#039;m guessing <em>The Road To Wigan Pier</em> is <strong>not</strong> on their approved reading list.
A performance of 4&prime;33&Prime; would probably send these people into fits as the silence, THE SILENCE, drove them mad, unleashing the full force of their cognitive dissonance to wreak havoc on their psyches.
Add &#039;The Mousehole Cat&#039; to the list. Book or video. <a href="http:\/\/vimeo.com\/42079212" target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://vimeo.com/42079212">http://vimeo.com/42079212</a>
Unfortunately, part 3 is missing.
Ah, I love it when the Christers and Teabaggers get confused about art styles. Abstraction = Radical Politics! Rockwell = Conservative! Fuckin illiterates.
Norman Rockwell: lifelong, ardent progressive. Painted impassioned artworks about civil rights and racial equality when the aesthetic avant-garde was stone silent.
Jackson Pollock: Created an art style that to the not-so-illiterate Cold Warriors handily embodies the concepts of freedom of expression, liberty, rejection of state authority over ideas, and other Things the Soviets Were Against. <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5686753/..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://gizmodo.com/5686753/how-the-cia-spent-secr...">http://gizmodo.com/5686753/...
When you put it that way...
Smoking, drinking, fornication. The teachers probably have to explain what those things are to their students, who wouldn&#039;t encounter such behavior in conservative Pleasantville.
Also: Best. Photoshop. Evar.
Hieronymus Bosch?
It&#039;s one of the more accessible examples of Zoomianism.
Aesthete, atheist -- who can tell the difference? And why would homeskoolers need to know?
My favorite moment is when she&#039;s walking towards the sun wearing a thin skirt and the sunlight illuminates her legs and posterior.
This posting was enlightening. I now understand why my odd neighbor who advocates home skooling believes that a Paula Dean cookbook and the latest edition of Field and Stream constitutes her interpretation of coffee table books.
Wait a minute...wasn&#039;t dadaism a response to a war where Christians on both sides were ground to a powder while their Christian generals and politician declared god was on their side?
Are the wingnuts aware that Muggeridge skewered the USA with his comments about Gas, Food, Drugs and Beauty? I can&#039;t find the original, it could have been part of radio broadcast, but the link refers to it. <a href="http://books.google.com/boo..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://books.google.com/books?id=ra_Li1zNZ54C&amp...">http://books.google.com/boo...
OT, but crazy Louie Gohmert does not fail to adhere to his name. <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.c..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/16/louie-go...">http://www.huffingtonpost.c...
I can certainly understand why they&#039;d be hatin&#039; on Kafka. After all, <em>The Trial</em> does indicate a certain distaste for an authoritarian system acting arbitrarily, whereas the Christianists absolutely need their little people to be accepting Because I Said So as a definitive answer.
<blockquote>The rest of the sins of literary liberals are mostly laid at the feet of early 20th Century writers who were blinded to the awfulness of Stalin, with no mention of any liberals who later changed their views or condemned him from the start, because apparently that never happened.&amp;lt;/blockquote
What delicious irony that they attempt to flush <em>1984</em> down the memory hole.</blockquote>
ETA: Bah, should&#039;ve read the whole piece. I&#039;m guessing <em>The Road To Wigan Pier</em> is <strong>not</strong> on their approved reading list.
Princess Diana?