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Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 09:00:41 +0200
MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello, =20 This posting continues my previous posting about the story of "Snow = White". So again, if you would like not to be involved, don't read any = further. =20 =20 I feel I made a mistake by assuming people have heard of this story but = now I see they haven't. So here are some more details: =20 The installation was created by a person who is a former Israeli and the = text was written by his wife.=20 =20 I wondered about the German ambassador's reaction because it is a story = of his culture that has been abused to my opinion. What was the reaction of the Israeli ambassador? He turned off the = lights shining on the pool. Legally speaking, he as offended the work = and property of another person and of the museum.=20 =20 Why has the story been abused, the way I see it? Because it has not been = used as a full story with a new interpretation, but has been fragmented = and twisted to the writer's intention: Not all the sentences introduced = there as Snow white's words or thoughts are originally so, they belong = to other characters, the order is mixed, a phrase by the hunter which = shows compassion has been turned into a license to kill and most of the = sentences could come from other stories except from those that speak = about the beauty of the contrasting colors and of the "heroine". Having = that text attached to the powerful image of a beautiful woman who = resembles the description of the innocent heroine that has managed to = escape the destiny her wicked stepmother had in mind for her, while we = are looking at the face of a woman who has murdered 19 people with cold = blood, some of them who are her own people (never mentioned in the = text), floating over that pool of blood, is a sick way of expressing an = opinion through art, and much more than mere "bad taste". =20 And for those who still see it as an expression of the suffering of both = sides: =20 What would you feel like if you were standing in front of an = installation of a pool full of ashes with the image of Osama Bin-Laden = or one of the pilots who flew the plains into the twin-towers, floating = above the pool with angel-wings, created by a former American artist and = placed in an important historical museum somewhere in Europe, with the = text of "The tin soldier" fragmented, twisted and mixed with inserts of = his sufferings and motivations? =20 Or an orchestra playing Richard Wagner's music in Auschwitz? Would that = be considered an artistic installation too? Is anything permitted when = it comes to art? =20 =20 ------------------------------- To Unsubscribe from Healingstory send the message: unsubscribe healingstory to: listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu ------------------------------- | ||