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...victors but also to the morally unambiguous. We tend to cite those individuals who divide most conveniently into black and white, good and evil, like characters in an old western. Those who are shades of gray, who are moral relativists, are relegated to a place outside the canon. This group includes those who may have the right idea but whose biography is dodgy, to say the least...
...painting in the '80s free--as if it had been languishing in bondage before!--by reviving, once more, the spirit of Dada that breathed through such movements as the Fluxus group in the '60s. He's the arch-trickster, mocking all art styles, sending up the dreaded Canon. (The fact that no work of art by a famous artist these days can safely be considered really and truly outside the Canon seems not to have dawned on those inside the Museum of Modern Art.) His strategy, according to MOMA, is to subvert "the elitist mythologies of artistic creation and production...
...SALINGER His onetime inamorata will auction private letters. Upside: the Salinger canon doubles...
...come to be treated as projections of a generation's still-fragile heritage, not as a trilogy of George Lucas movies. Since those movies came out, a generation of Americans have made them an almost-religious touchstone, and in the last decade the Star Wars franchise has generated a canon of Star Wars trivia, coming in the form of trashy novels and pretentious "technical manuals." This new movie, then, comes as a banal realization of rumors that have been circulating for 20 years...
...Shatema, why can't we use this hip hop that you swear is yet to come attack the existing canon of hip hop's objectification and hatred of women, the males' insistence that we look half-black and Filipino or we won't see them? It should and will (I have thousands of things to say on that subject). We have to keep the problems straight in our mind and not attack sexism like it's a new thing, created by hip hop. True, women are most likely to be killed by someone they know, but why? Femme...