One more comment on the Ike memorial. I never get
to D.C. much but from the on-line photos I wanted to add that an artist
like
Gehry - like Lady Gaga - whose life work has been irony should not be
chosen as the knowing
insider joke of the hipster is always part of the ongoing work of the
"anti-establishment" artist (it is not really art, it is hidden
political sociology and commentary and Gehry is incapable of anything
deeper). Unless
I am missing something from the on line photos of the mock up, the
inside joke here seems to be that the collection of marines around
Eisenhower in the "fly fishing" photo seems to
intentionally suggest toy soldiers of the kind children used to play
with. And the people following in the background seem to
suggest the horde which follows blindly like those in the movie "Close
Encounters of the Third Kind” lured to the alien spacecraft.
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