[lbo-talk] U.C. Davis pepper spray cop occupies art history - TheWashington Post

[Wojtek S]

Joanna: "That's what I'm asking. What's the point of putting the cop
in all the pictures. I mean I just don't get it. I'm not saying it's
bad or good. I'm saying I don't understand any part of it and would
welcome an explanation"

[WS;] To shock the polite people, of course.  It is like, say,  the
riffraff at a respectable bourgeois banquet - a popular cultural trope
in Eastern European counter culture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Career_of_Nicodemus_Dyzma

Wojtek

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:56 PM,  <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
> That's what I'm asking. What's the point of putting the cop in all the pictures. I mean I just don't get it. I'm not saying it's bad or good. I'm saying I don't understand any part of it and would welcome an explanation.
>
> Joanna
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> Joanna: This stuff completely escapes me. I mean putting the cop in all the
> pictures.
>
> ???
> ------
>
> And ??? is my first response to your post. The cop IS the picture's message.
> What point would the pictures have if they did not show the cop?
>
> Carrol
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