[lbo-talk] Abu Ghraib inspires artist Fernando Botero

[Michael Dawson]

Isn't one of the primary purposes of this list is to work out our ideas in
collaboration, in order to make ourselves and the left smarter, better,
stronger?  Even allowing for me going over the top, I don't quite understand
why people think argument and even heated argument in this forum are somehow
hostile.  I would probably take a bullet for every member of this group, out
in the real world.  But here, we're not trying to talk about the weather and
how much we like this or that.  We're trying to feel our way toward
progress.  That means arguing.

 

As to me attacking the whole left: Not true.  Ward Churchill is a fraud and
a liar, in my opinion.  Beyond that, all I was trying to say about Botero is
that he sounded like he'd just discovered war crimes.  I realize he was
probably quoted by a journalist who ignored the balance of what he said, but
Abu Ghraib should not be surprising to anybody who's followed the war
machine.

 

If you don't think I attack the right, take a look at this:
www.press.uillinois.edu/s05/dawson.html.

 

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Subject: [lbo-talk] Abu Ghraib inspires artist Fernando Botero

 

And where was "Senor" Botero during Stalingrad,Guernica,etc......

What kind of comment is this? Do you Senor Dawson expect him to be
everywhere, every time genocide is committed?

I am usually, for reasons of time, just a lurker, but I have been observing
with curiosity and indignation how Michael Dawson systematically attacks
everyone in the left from Churchill, other members of the list and now
Fernando Botero,so I couldn't resist this time. I don't remember him
pursuing right wingers with the same zest. Amazing!

Fernando Botero is just trying to be a good artist: someone who comments on
the big events of our times, who offers visions and new perspectives on them
with a good command of visual technique. Why aren't American artists
pursuing the themes of empire is a good question?

Cristobal Senior

NYC

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