Hi Alison,
I wanted to say that I do agree with what you say about the excessive use of
_world_ done by those who feel (and are) provincial, and that I also
appreciate your previous remark, I mean... _faint of heart_ the guy is
joking,
_yes, I am also showing off my new signature, as a pair of brand new
lacquered polished shoes:
Anny Ballardini
http://www.fieralingue.it/poetcorner/index.php
Android, loving beggar, dive to the poor
(from Mantis)
Louis Zukofsky
> At 7:35 PM +1000 12/10/03, Ruark Lewis wrote:
> >Fed Square like the National Museum in Canberra feels like something
> >somewhere else, a lesser version being something in Berlin and Bilboa,
ah,
> >to navigate by stars - very antipodean. Here the modernist replicates a
> >tendency from elsewhere, cover versions unaffordable, located and
plotted,
> >in anthologies and kunstforums magazines. Did they msitranslate
> >Derrida(sic)on purpose for the misconsumption down under - so as to
follow
> >the trace.
>
> You're right, Ruark. The National Museum "homage" to Liebeskind was
> a complete farce, as was, in a different way, the lopping of the
> Shard in Federation Square. The sort of comedy Gogol wrote so well.
> The cringe is alive and well, but has mutated to a different kind of
> nationalistic pusillaminity - what Barrie Kosky once called the
> "world class" syndrome (if you believe the newspapers we have "world
> class" cities, theatre, architecture, everything else, but it's only
> those who feel provincial who need to say so).
>
> Best
>
> A
>
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>
>
> Alison Croggon
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