January 2008
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The recipe of the political artist
1) Know your audience, namely, liberal/leftists. 2) Acquire imagery your audience finds abominable: War, Death, Military, Police, but Presidents Reagan and W. Bush will do (feel free to always go back to Nixon, Reagan, and any Bush if the current President is a member of the Democrat[ic] Party). It’s in your best interest to appropriate their likeness from photography. This tactic fulfills...
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The Presumption of the Political Artist v.3
The Folk Singer Folk music as a social expression, or protest, is a very American art form. Beginning with the American folk music revival of the 1950s to mid- 1960s, it reached its ideological apex in the Vietnam Era. The embodiment of this much politicized form of music is without a doubt Bob Dylan. Dylan became the voice of a generation disillusioned with the Vietnam War, the first war to...