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The prize pays £25,000
Boy, does it ever pay. That' $39,355
Campbell shot his film in his own studio and at the Glasgow Art Institute. [Hey! Denver Art Institute is 2 blocks up on Lincoln ] His inspiration for the film was the 1953 documentary on African art and how colonization affects how it is perceived, called "Statues Also Die," thus the poster shown briefly in the background of this video reading Les statues meurent aussi.
What? No credit to Andy Warhol? Come on Duncan, you are sure to have head of him. It all seems so obvious and so lame to me.
What? No mention of Native American art, and the affects of colonization on how it is perceived?
No mention of Inuit art?
No clovis art?
No totem poles?
No Aztec, Mayan, Mixtec, Moche, and a thousand others?
No Japanese art and the affects of opening Japan has on how it is perceived.
No Chinese art and the affects of Marco Polo exploration
No Indian Southern Continent and the affects of how it is perceived by colonization
Conversely, nothing to say about Western art and the affects of world trade. Just as Westerners suffer tattoos of Chinese characters with only a vague idea of their meaning, so too do Asians wear Nike sports clothing and t-shirts with random Western lettering without a clue to their meaning. Because they like them.
Yes, yes, yes, we take their stuff and admire it because we like it, just as they take ours. It's called exchange, and the affects on how we perceive it, and use it whether as religious or totems or objects of utility matters not.
Don't get me started or I'll make a video of the affects of the horror that spread the globe like a virus, the cheap resin monoblock chair. You cannot escape them.
Johannesburg:
India
Mozambique
Cuba
Free wheelchair mission
Tulum Mexico
Ghana
Turkey
Iraq
Well, maybe I did make up that last one. The point is made. We use each other's stuff and sometimes even apart from their original purpose. It is a good thing, not something to get worked up about.
