Kozik's Stalin bust - Boing Boing
While it is still interesting pop Cross Over and political idolatry, we must consider the results when there is no artist's statement to describe this process. The site of a manifesto that outlines the reasons for the artist to choose this person? Clothes? Colors? Cigarettes? Or is it just left the public to decide the common denominator of least resistance? Shock Value alone is not enough to justify a new idolatry, even ironically, a mass murderer. I was going to point out that the target market is probably the kind of person who has a poster of Mao on their walls, but agitprop beat me to it.I hope it was a joke. I guess the question is how many people have to kill before a hipster will consider putting an icon of Day-Glo you on their wall? Is the sale price gallery to comment on the policy object? What if the policy object are different, or unjustifiable? Would you buy a bust of Idi Amin Dada? Milosevic? Klebold? Not that the bust of one of them would not be in the right situation and with the declaration of an artist, a rational concept, but you want in your home? What does it say about how easy it is to isolate us from some murders, but not others?
We watched the work of Mr. Kozik with interest for years. Ridiculing the great effort with the pink coloring, and more extensive than the Secretary General of the Central Committee has been involved in the worst effects of capitalism smug and cancer: Marlboro cigarettes and "baseball jerseys." Is this the artist is known not ashamed? We have forwarded this information to the NKVD.
The great turning point was the secret speech in Moscow in 1956 by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev denouncing 
Stalin- 20-30 million, Mao, 20-30 million? And you think that the Spanish inquisition, the conquistadors, and the crusades rival that? and more »
