Posts by chris
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Let me guess: you spend your day coming up with pub jokes?
The elder of the two Catholics who'd make Paul look like Albert Shweitzer, is a tragic Canadian conflict addicted ex cellphone shop manager with a trophy wife and a penchant for bagging those Chinese .
Being the tomb festival, Monday was a public holiday; A special day when people visit the plots of their ancestors and burn fake money in tribute. I arrived amidst a rant, in which he was earnestly mocking this practice questioning why they don't instead burn real money. I asked him what the wine drunk at communion represents and he answered simply "because Jesus drank wine at the last supper". I set about explaining the concept of symbolism to him. It's trying.
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There are going to be fuckups in wars, if we insist on having them.
But it does seem a tad optimistic to expect the lads to just follow the rules in what is otherwise an illegal war.
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So will New Zealand stop supporting US military campaigns?
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For my part I'm genuinely pissed at Paul's attitude, in light of the fact Pre-Renaissance Eastern Art is more or less still an untouched commodity in Art History Academia. Rather than his scorn, I'd really hoped to have gotten his genuine opinion on some of the links I presented. Now I'm left fuming, staring at my screen in this confounded office I share with two Catholics and a Mormon. It's not often Art comes up, and even rarer to come across an art historian, so I won't disguise my disappointment.
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Nothing new there.
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So he still has his eyesight? Is that where he's doing his doctorate?
I wonder if he'll be pulling this kind of bs out in the classroom when he hit's the zero mark
but you do not have the faintest idea what you are talking about,
That would certainly make a change of pace from how things were when I was studying there.
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Jim Henson
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Anything that needs to lay claims (to authenticity) has already lost them.
hmm
Like in 'The Island' 2005, when Tom Lincoln and his clone Lincoln Echo Six are both pleading with the gunman Albert Laurent - "I am the real Tom Lincoln!."
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You just NEVER let what is 'art 'belong to the speculations,definitions, & - especially- the determinations of a specialist group: people will make up their minds as to what is special, what is powerful, what is overwhelming when it comes to human artefacts-
Nicely put Islander, I only wish when I'd studied Art History that they'd given us more than a couple of slides worth of exposure to work from those other three continents to evaluate. Saying that, there were a reasonable number of papers devoted to Maori Art(wtf?) at Canterbury. and looking at the titles;
Te Taura Whakairo: The Continuum of Maori and Indigenous Art
Maori Art: Taonga Tuku Iho
He Korero Toi Whiriwhiria: Maori and 4th World Indigenous Art in Theoretical and Educational Contextsone would have to assume, Mr Litterick's memo never arrived.
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Some interesting stuff here re; forgeries;
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/3654259/The-forger-who-fooled-the-world.html
Regardless of veracity, a great read
According to a contemporary account: "[Göring] looked as if for the first time he had discovered there was evil in the world."