http://emergentchaos.com/archives/2005/03/france-imitates-art-stalin.html The Emergent Chaos Jazz Combo Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:20:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://emergentchaos.com/archives/2005/03/france-imitates-art-stalin.html/comment-page-1#comment-522 Pete Sun, 13 Mar 2005 18:23:26 +0000 http://emergentchaos.com/?p=544#comment-522 It's not the same photo. Look closely. It’s not the same photo. Look closely.

]]> http://emergentchaos.com/archives/2005/03/france-imitates-art-stalin.html/comment-page-1#comment-521 Iang Sat, 12 Mar 2005 07:40:11 +0000 http://emergentchaos.com/?p=544#comment-521 From one of those links on Satre wrote: > "Smoking," the Left-wing existentialist wrote, is "the symbolic equivalent of destructively appropriating the entire world." It sounds like both sweet justice and art to me. Picasso said that good artists borrow and great artists steal. The presentation of an image can be modified to present a point; the point of art is not to adorn walls with pretty colours but (arguably) to present a different point of view. In stamps, the French PO suggests that Satre lost in the war to destructively appropriate the world. From one of those links on Satre wrote:
> “Smoking,” the Left-wing existentialist wrote, is “the symbolic equivalent of destructively appropriating the entire world.”
It sounds like both sweet justice and art to me. Picasso said that good artists borrow and great artists steal. The presentation of an image can be modified to present a point; the point of art is not to adorn walls with pretty colours but (arguably) to present a different point of view.
In stamps, the French PO suggests that Satre lost in the war to destructively appropriate the world.

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