Towering stupidity. (Artifact).HERE'S NEW ZEALAND New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. artist Gail Haffern standing next to her new installation, Sept. II. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Haffern, using passenger planes to attack office buildings was "wonderful...because it was a new idea." She says her work "asks the viewer to take a new position free of accusation and prejudice to view the acts of September II with a sense of amazement." Damien Hirst, Britain's celebrated artist, told the BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. in September that the attacks had been "visually stunning" artworks and that the perpetrators "need congratulating." He later issued a statement insisting that "I value human life." Hirst and Haffern were echoing sentiments blurted out in 2001 by the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen. He reportedly called the attacks "the greatest work of art ever." These artists represent an aesthetic barbarity not evident since Europe's Futurists celebrated violence, destruction, and martial strength and then allied themselves with fascism. Indeed, the critic Walter Benjamin Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin (July 15, 1892 – September 27, 1940) was a German Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and was also greatly inspired by the Marxism of Bertolt charged fascism with "aestheticizing" its politics. Perhaps this too is "aestheticized" politics. Did the bombers of Guernica need congratulating? Was the obliteration A destruction; an eradication of written words. Obliteration is a method of revoking a Will or a clause therein. Lines drawn through the signatures of witnesses to a will constitute an obliteration of the will even if the names are still decipherable. of Hiroshima a wonderfully novel burst of light? Or is it only the mass murder of Americans that is art? |
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