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Chief among the former was, of course, Picasso, who emerged from the German Occupation of France an emblem of noncollaboration, a hero of the left and of artists in general. His bronze Death's Head, 1943, is the perfect image for the show's beginning: a cannonball of impacted death, heavier than any imaginable head. Massacre in Korea, 1951, asserts continuity by quoting Goya and thus morosely pointing out that the disasters of war only recur. The cluster of gun barrels leveled at the weeping women comes directly out of Goya's The Third of May. They are fantasy weapons...
Mapplethorpe's career was an emblem of the 1980s art scene, when bohemianism was banished and artists became media stars. Photography was the perfect medium for the times: fast, mechanical and endlessly reproducible. Mapplethorpe, as Morrisroe notes, divided his work between his X-rated sex pictures and his PG-rated portraits and flowers. He merchandised both shrewdly. Mapplethorpe's talent was given to his work, but his genius was devoted to marketing himself...
...pants are the fashion choice of stagnation. The emblem of conservatism. They supplant democratic jeans. The masses of the Culturally Mediocre should know that Miles might have worn khakis, but he didn't realize what they represent. He should have found himself a comfy pair of 50Is...
Still, there was also a willingness to try to heal thorns in the flesh. Arizona Senator John McCain proposed that the Senate Judiciary Committee hold hearings into the 1993 siege of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, a shared emblem of pain among antigovernment zealots. That disaster, said McCain, "fanned the flames of distrust." Indeed, the general perception that the federal action was justified may come in for serious revisionism. In an article in the May issue of the religious journal First Things, Dean Kelley, a respected legal scholar, reviews the records of the siege and questions the need...
...Scofflaws' ode, "William Shatner," is another prime example of the gleeful nature of ska. Dedicated to the actor of Star Trek fame, the few words of the song not suprisingly treat William Shatner as a mere synonym for Captain Kirk: "He's got a fine tan shirt with an emblem on the chest/ The interstellar girls all like him the best." MU330 from St. Louis also show their wackiness with the song "Stuff." Described playfully in the liner notes as being "a hopeless romantic sort of thing, really," this tune contains such memorable lines as "I'm just so tired...