Word: context
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suppose that the concept of martial law has a positive content with a prescribed set of rules. Martial law is just the right to use soldiers, and the right to use soldiers implies the right to use them as if in time of war. Even in a presumably civil context, the National Guard at Kent State had the legal right to engage in a limited state of war. State governors can justify any expedient tactic directly related to the quelling of disorder, and it makes no difference whether they be reactionaries or politically vulnerable green-horns. At present, the revolutionary...
...Ananda Marga is not the denial or obliteration of each human personality, but its perfection: Ananda Marga is unabashedly striving to create a one-world society of Universal Men, human beings' each unbound by the limitations of time, space, and person, and yet each uniquely personal. In such a context the Guru, Shrii Sarkar, appears in sharper focus as a model man than as a human...
...self-portrait, dramatic in its russet, green and purple facial tones, is a forceful and moving expression. David Fitcher's silkscreen of a contorted American flag lying amid a claret and orange landscape ably controls, through an appreciation of the organizing effect of color, both its political and aesthetic context...
...these descriptions are, I suppose, more or less accurate. But instead of fleshing out the artistic context, I'm going to relate them to the objective, functional (and inevitably political) use-value of the "trend" film as a cultural commodity...
Petri's portrait of Authority remains just that: the poetic evocation of images from murky psychic depths and from a conception of the authoritarian mentality as an autonomous entity. It remains stagnant, detached from the dynamic politico-economic context that created it. This is not to say, however, that Volonte is "unconvincing" in the realistic portrayal of an individual pig-figure. His characterization is in fact masterful in embodying the all-important humanist absolute, Ambiguity, as he transforms the cop smoothly, almost imperceptibly-within single shots-from an archetypal tyrant to a snivelling child. It is the very wholeness...