{"id":9400,"date":"2006-07-15T08:32:17","date_gmt":"2006-07-15T15:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/07\/15\/when-old-art-is-evil-art.html"},"modified":"2006-07-15T08:32:17","modified_gmt":"2006-07-15T15:32:17","slug":"when_old_art_is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/07\/15\/when_old_art_is.html","title":{"rendered":"When old art is evil art"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am, not surprisingly, someone who instinctively defends preservation of old art and architecture. Not all of it is aesthetically pleasing, but we destroy or demolish our past at our own risk. And when the art in question is being potentially destroyed because it’s controversial or nasty<\/a> in some way — well, that really gets my hackles up, knowing how such designations change over time, but how what’s lost is lost forever.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, the tale of the huge 1930s WPA mural “The Dangers of the Mail<\/a>” is a bit more complex. It’s a large mural showing a group of lily-white pioneers being attacked and slaughtered by Indians — with quite a bit of focus on the Indians backstabbling fleeing frontiersmen and scalping lots of nekkid white women. It’s apparently more than a bit disturbing to some<\/a>, and I don’t know as I can altogether blame them, especially since it’s inside of a major government office in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n

So is it enough to simply hide it from view but preserve it as an historic artifact? Are the ideas of it so disturbing and disgusting that it should be simply removed from the record? Or ought it remain on display as an example of past attitudes, with, perhaps, a plaque to one side giving its history and some commentary on the violence and brutality visited by all sides of the Indian Wars of the 19th Century?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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