Yup, the best of his kind.
At 10:48 AM 10/30/2007, you wrote:
>This is great, Mark. But I'm also grateful for the chance to see the
>Diebenkorn paintings in that list, as well. Was lucky enough to see
>the 1999 retrospective at the SFMOMA. I think his work will last.
>
>Doug
>On 29-Oct-07, at 2:58 PM, Mark Weiss wrote:
>
>>Robert Colescott replaces all of the figures in Leutze's painting
>>with representations of cliches about black people in his wonderful
>>George Washington Carver Crosses the Delaware. Images of minstrels,
>>mammies, bare-foot fishermen, etc, which have become kitsch
>>collectibles for middle class blacks of the past few decades (price
>>a period Aunt Jemima jar to see what I mean) , all of them having a
>>grand old time, replace the desperately struggling Continentals.
>>Kitsch, and the kitsch version of American history, has been
>>appropriated into a reverberant statement about race in America, at
>>once profoundly serious and hysterically funny.
>Douglas Barbour
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>It's the first lesson, loss.
>Who hasn't tried to learn it
>at the hands of wind or thieves?
>
> Jan Zwicky
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