Art news: Wyndham Lewis goes shopping for a car with Ezra Pound

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Vintage Automobile Ads & Posters, ed. Carol Belanger Grafton (Mineola, NY: Dover, 2010), image 032

Hommage à Andre Gide

From

http://afilreis.blogspot.com/2010/10/art-as-animal-cruelty.html

we learn that art students are still learning philosophy from Gide and the Marquis de Sade.

From

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/13/AR2010101307173.html

we learn that Harry Whittington, the man Dick Cheney shot five years ago, was much more seriously wounded than was reported at the time -- in fact, almost killed then, and still suffering now from his injuries, including a quite possibly shortened lifespan.

One more thing we learn from the article is this:

Cheney never has apologized, publicly or privately.

Let's hear it for performance art and the acte gratuit!

Update: familiarizing the defamilar

On January 2, at

http://jonathan-morse.blogspot.com/2010/01/home-front-art-familiarizing-defamiliar.html

I blogged about a painting by a Nazi artist of a soldier in Hitler's SS Wiking Division. Now, at a time when many polls are predicting a shift to Republican control following next month's congressional elections in the United States, comes the news that the hobby of one Republican candidate is dressing up as a soldier in Hitler's SS Wiking Division. The link is here (with thanks to Susan Schultz)

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/10/why-is-this-gop-house-candidate-dressed-as-a-nazi/64319/

and here (second from right) is the candidate.

Progress is being made in international history. It's making the transition from subtitles to dubbed speech, and one of these days I suppose it may become America's native language.

The blog and its readers: not without honor save in his own country

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