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August 18, 2009
Who is this Joker?
Mark Milian at the LA Times blog misses a few fundamental points about political speech and street art: it's not political speech until someone injects the politics, and it's not street art until it hits the streets. When cryptic posters portraying President Obama as the Joker from "Batman" began popping up around Los Angeles and other cities, the question many asked was, Who is behind the image? When you ask a vague question like "Who is behind the image?," you may as well say Time magazine, their photographer, Bill Finger and Bob Kane. It's not the image that matters, but the context. When Milian blithely dismisses the Obama-as-Joker Socialism poster as a college student's PhotoShop experiment, intentionally or not, he obscures the reality of the question: it's not the image of Obama as the Joker, but the image in the context of the word SOCIALISM, in the context of a poster plastered in a city landscape. The context of art is everything, and the artist, whom Milian calls a "still-anonymous rogue," has yet to be unmasked. posted by Dennis on 08.18.09 at 10:01 AM |
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The reason why it went viral so quickly is that the image fits Obama. The Joker was destroying everything in sight and more and more folks realize that Obama is doing the same thing. Why so serious? Indeed. Leftists are howling because it hit too close to the mark. And what's priceless is who made the poster. Oh no......we've shot ourselves in the foot.