fridgemagnet

...so let me insist that however strenuously idealogues strive to 'normalize' popular art, popular artists like Rockwell do not creat normality. Governments, religions, and network statisticians create normality, articulate it and try to impose it. Artists like Rockwell celebrate ordinary equanimity for the eccentric gift that it is... From the essay Shining Hours/Forgiving Rhyme by Dave Hickey from the book Air Guitar, which I highly recommend, gobstoppers.