[Leica] Peter's article on Wagner is up

[imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)]

Neither Peter's article
nor the subject at hand
has to do with whether
Nazi's "liked" Wagner's music;
or a particular dog.

It's about Wagner's politics and attitudes
(dogs don't have politics and attitudes);
and whether those politics and attitudes
seeped into his art
to the point of becoming
anti-social, or fascist, propaganda.

Additionally, we have the general question
of whether the art of a superb and talented artist
can rise above allowing
abhorrent political and anti-social tendencies affect their work;
or avoid the use of their work in the promotion
of abhorrent behavior in others.

Or so it seems to me.

Regards,
George Lottermoser
george at imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com/blog
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On Aug 7, 2009, at 4:07 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:

> We need to put all these things on our no no list.