Michael Pollak wrote:
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> On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Doug Henwood wrote:
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> > Call me an aesthete and a formalist, but freshly beautiful use of
> > language, and emotional and/or intellectual complexity. What makes so
> > much "political" art bad is that it recycles cliches - that it's
> > painfully earnest and straightforward.
Actually no one is calling Doug an aesthete or a formalist -- it's just Doug building his private fantasy of an intellectual lone ranger again.
Carrol
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> Of course there are also lots of examples of propaganda being made into
> great art, from Pick-Up on South Street to Richard III. Both are very
> earnest and straightforward. And tremendous.
>
> Michael