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Post by Martin Stett on Dec 23, 2023 14:32:32 GMT
Let's settle this. Movies, books, music, erotic pottery - what is that one piece of art that you would point to with a gun to your head and say "that's my baby."  It's a tough call for me, but I'm leaning towards... The TV series Legend of the Galactic Heroes, in spite of its myriad problems. Strikingly ambitious and endlessly entertaining, it takes a standard space opera concept (a band of plucky rebels against a galaxy spanning empire) and expands it to a magnificently large scale. Not just in huge space battles fought in the hundreds of millions, but in the discussion of politics and ideologies. And then, it cuts down to the micro scale, showing ordinary men and women getting blown up, torn to shreds, crawling across the floor with their guts spilling out... We see the resolve of a military junta deposing of corrupt leadership in a desire to return government to the people, we see wars between "one good and another good," we see the story portraying characters as heroes and then point blank asking us how much we can agree with their ideals. It's the epic to end all epics, the thinking man's war story, an attempt to create a fictional history of mankind that stays true to our real history. "In every age, in every place, the deeds of men remain the same."   |
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 23, 2023 16:11:19 GMT
You asked for it  Art, like Life is about contradiction - you want to live hard - but living hard can you know, kill you. You want to be good but being good can make you weak too ........being strong can make you isolated.......you want to grow up too fast, and then wish you had that time back later on. Life like Art is not about being "perfect" it's about embracing contradiction(s) and no work of Art is ABOUT contradiction(s) as - The Replacements Let It Be. It is not an album that is judged by it's lesser songs - the lesser songs are often the most enjoyable (contradictions, again). The songs are not about consciously creating Art - they are about compromise and bewilderment: a song for the wild guitarist to go wild playing.........a song about the teen bass player and what he might be feeling......an album of deep longing moments that sit side by side with juvenalia songs about erections, tonsil removal and a cover of Kiss' Black Diamond. No work of Art ever thrilled me as much - ever felt like it was about me and mine like Let it Be - certainly no work of music that had years of "Classic Rock Radio" (yeah, sure) shoved down my throat......the way Baby Boomers jizzed themselves over Born To Run or Blonde on Blonde or Abbey Road is the way that Let it Be exposed the lie about iconography and celebrity worship Paul Westerberg could be my Dylan, Lennon and Springsteen all in one......sure, why not........it was music of its time - it only could have been created in the Reagan era - and in a way of all-time too.......certainly it was as an American work of Art as I can think of: one that treats "failure" - the USA's national joke btw - as not something romantic, or noble......... but inevitable. I have never been without it since the day I first heard it........and next year it turns 40.......and Liberty.......is a lie. If you know.......you know:  |
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Post by countjohn on Dec 23, 2023 17:26:22 GMT
The Michael Jordan "Stop it get some help" meme
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Dec 24, 2023 4:08:42 GMT
Probably Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov
Just so overwhelmingly rich and penetrating in the way it examines the characters' philosophical strivings and dilemmas, problems of morality, free will, faith, and on and on. Put simply, it’s basically a book about life in all its complexity... actually had a passage from it read at my wedding because my wife loves it just as much as I do.
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 28, 2023 8:29:26 GMT
Bumping this thread because we have just 3 mentions - all wildly diverse - and I'm curious about the rest of you.....
random side note: best Rock song to mention Dostoevsky's name ^? It's less than 2 months old! (unless I'm forgeting one)
"Past the David Foster Wallace bandana in his hair
Who mentions Dostoevsky when he's sure someone's can hear
Then argues with the barman on existential themes
And heads into the bathroom to Google what it means"
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Post by Nikan on Dec 28, 2023 21:38:29 GMT
Life like Art is not about being "perfect" it's about embracing contradiction(s) But  how do we do it? |
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Post by TylerDeneuve on Dec 29, 2023 0:43:55 GMT
It would have to be something by Joshua Reynolds or Thomas Gainsborough... I'm completely enamored of the art and décor of the 18th century, particularly as it pertains to Colonial America.
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