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METAPHYSICAL ART BY URI
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“False Profits": Steven Gagnon Subverts the Iconography of American Empire BY URI DOWBENKO
Posted
6/29/12
Dissident Art, which critiques the Ruling Class’s perfidies and crimes against humanity -- whether in Hitler’s Germany, Stalin’s Soviet Union or Bush/Obama’s America, has a long and significant role in western art history. What comes to mind? George Grosz. Picasso’s Guernica. Goya’s Saturn Devouring His Children. Banksy’s Fuck the Police.
In today’s N.S.S.A. or National Security States of America, a/k/a the American Empire, Steven Gagnon’s work may be consid... [more]
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