tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617011.post115799344266287660..comments2024-03-27T23:45:06.093+01:00Comments on Renewable Music: Memory and AllegoryDaniel Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09093101325234464791noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617011.post-1158597544652869092006-09-18T18:39:00.000+02:002006-09-18T18:39:00.000+02:00Anonymous -The public does have significant culpab...Anonymous -<BR/><BR/>The public does have significant culpability in that they have been blind both to our government policy and to the effects of that policy; in the end, "the government" is elected or rejected by the public, and decades of failed policy are a democratic failure. <BR/><BR/>The painting is also missing meaningful representation of the failures of Islamic culture. As culpable as we are, the vaccum in which we have been able to operate for so long in much of the world was created by a absence of local solutions to the problems of modernity. Representing the terrorists by cherubs with toy planes is clearly an inadequate response to this.Daniel Wolfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09093101325234464791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617011.post-1158589232326486022006-09-18T16:20:00.000+02:002006-09-18T16:20:00.000+02:00It is not a good painting or memorial, because it ...It is not a good painting or memorial, because it denies fundamental truths about 9/11. While Parrish's painting is expertly painted and pays total fidelity to the classical tradition, the painting's message of "the endless cycle of human frailty" and people's inherent blindness to tragic events (his own words) is utterly false. 9/11 of course was not an act of god, but an act of politics; its arrival and realization were pretty well predicted and not acted upon by our government. Whatever blindness the public had to such an event was the result of our own government's actions over the course of several decades. Parrish sanitizes his painting of any culpability of the US government, making the painting not only staged and contrived but a lie as well.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617011.post-1158103140577971892006-09-13T01:19:00.000+02:002006-09-13T01:19:00.000+02:00A day later and a day wiser, I realise that leavin...A day later and a day wiser, I realise that leaving off the Berg Violin Concerto (in memory of "an angel", Manon Gropius), Ashley's "She Was A Visitor", and Josquin's Deploration on the Death of Ockeghem were real mistakes.<BR/><BR/>And yes, anonymous, it is a strange painting. The question is whether it is a good painting and a goood memorial.Daniel Wolfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09093101325234464791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617011.post-1158041096003252832006-09-12T08:04:00.000+02:002006-09-12T08:04:00.000+02:00What a strange picture.What a strange picture.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com