Global Artists
September 7, 2004 10:30 AM Subscribe
Global Artists. If influential historical figures were reincarnated as artists, what works of art would they produce today? [Via Aeiou.]
And Mao's contribution was, indeed, very Mao-like; he was constantly transforming identities among his people - almost like that famous classroom experiment in which students with certain hair or eye color (I think it was) were arbitrarily designated as outcasts. Yeah - I'd like to see more of these. (And give us some goils, please: Elizabeth I, would be cool, for example. She was quite a performance artist in my estimation. Indira Gandhi would be interesting; Maggie; Victoria; Cleo; Isabella; Golda; Joan, Sappho... ).
I also like the idea behind "Fascinum" on that site: A grid of the most viewed news pictures (ranked from 1 to 10) on different national Yahoo portals. Would be really, really good if they were linked.
posted by taz at 11:09 PM on September 7, 2004
I also like the idea behind "Fascinum" on that site: A grid of the most viewed news pictures (ranked from 1 to 10) on different national Yahoo portals. Would be really, really good if they were linked.
posted by taz at 11:09 PM on September 7, 2004
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On another point... Adolf Hitler, of course, was a highly self-conscious artist, and used the crowds, the banners, the lights, etc., as his media for overall emotional effect. One of the most unpopular comments made by any public figure after 9-11 was Carlo Stockhausen's description of the perpetrators as "artists" -- which, of course, they were.
posted by Faze at 10:56 AM on September 7, 2004