Camp Bucca, Iraq
“We need to take our hands off the handlebars, or the training wheels, at some point,” Maj. Gen. David G. Perkins, the chief American military spokesman, said Monday.
George Bellows
American naive, at National Gallery
Walker Evans
Gary Winogrand
Philip Guston
Martin Heade
J-M Basquiat
Joel Sternfeld
Frank Gehry does blast walls
de Tocqueville:
“As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?”
“In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.”
“In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.”
