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http://idiommag.com/2010/12/hate-triumphs-at-the-smithsonian/ powered by ArtCat Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:59:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.24 http://idiommag.com/2010/12/hate-triumphs-at-the-smithsonian/comment-page-1/#comment-194 Fri, 07 Jan 2011 19:26:33 +0000 http://idiommag.com/?p=2839#comment-194 […] As we progress up the spiral towards the inevitable, symbolized not only by the aforementioned Ziegler but also by Leni Riefenstahl’s show-stopping Olympia, what stands out is the clarity of the opposition between Right and Left cultural positioning. Unlike today, that is, where sexism, racism and homophobia are re-branded as one side in a ‘culture war’ for which they have neglected to show up as art, in interwar Europe there actually was a contest between two competing accounts of what painting and sculpture can and should be. Fascists, whose terrible taste is on such ample display as to achieve a kind of grim hilarity, still felt that art was worth fighting for. Today’s Right just wants it to go away. […]

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