<DIV>Depends on if you're Jewish, of course. I get these catalogs advertising Sovietica and "treasures of the Romanovs" and a shudder goes right through me -- and not because of the Sovietica, and not because I'm still some sort of a red. My mom (no sort of a red) gets the same reaction to the "treasures of the Romanovs." "May the Lord bless the Tsar, and keep the Tsar . . . far far from us!" jks Chris Doss <itschris13@hotmail.com> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> > > > http://www.stanford.edu/~gfreidin/courses/147/propart/propart.htm > > > > ___________________________________ > > http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk > > > >How is that different from the portraiture of Russian nobility, cf: > >http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/fcgi-bin/db2www/quickSearchDL.mac/DLgalle >ry?selLang=English&tmCond=Nikolai&START_ROW_NUM_DL=29 > >Wojtek The difference is that Stalin is an officially desgnated demon figure and the Russian nobility are not. Ergo, in the reflexively Stalinophobic world, a portrait of him is automatically BAD, whereas portraits of Russian nobility may be fine art. Stalin = Bad. _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ___________________________________ http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><hr SIZE=1> Do you Yahoo!? Free <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/tag/*http://calendar.yahoo.com">online calendar</a> with sync to Outlook(TM).