Miguel Covarrubias - General Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Wed, Feb 8, 2012 12:40 PM That was FUNNY! This is where I differ: Why would I have to feel guilty if i find that commercial funny? I find Germans stereotyped as as Nazis and in Lederhosen funny. If in this f#@&d-up world we can no longer romanticize, parodize or exaggerate through art because it is un-p.c., than we are really sunk. That Stubenberg cover was more late 50s, not "around 1950" On 2012-02-08 11:08, aquarj wrote: In reality, the thrust of Covarrubias' work was just the opposite - not exploitation but recognition, preservation, celebration! I completely agree. [ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2012-02-08 13:07 ]

That was FUNNY! This is where I differ: Why would I have to feel guilty if i find that commercial funny? I find Germans stereotyped as as Nazis and in Lederhosen funny. If in this f#@&d-up world we can no longer romanticize, parodize or exaggerate through art because it is un-p.c., than we are really sunk.

That Stubenberg cover was more late 50s, not "around 1950"

On 2012-02-08 11:08, aquarj wrote:
In reality, the thrust of Covarrubias' work was just the opposite - not exploitation but recognition, preservation, celebration!

I completely agree.

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2012-02-08 13:07 ]

Post #624127 by bigbrotiki on Wed, Feb 8, 2012 12:40 PM