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Thursday August 20, 2009 22:00
by Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin - http://gaelart.net/
caoimhghin at yahoo dot com
Life Below the Bottom Rung
A series of oil paintings examining the daily existence of people making a living in the worst working conditions in the global economy.
Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conceals fierce conflicts of interest (sometimes exploding, most often repressed) between conquerors and conquered, masters and slaves, capitalists and workers, dominators and dominated in race and sex. And in such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not to be on the side of the executioners.
A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn
PHONE RECYCLING, Mumbai, India
SOLDERING CIRCUIT BOARDS, Toy factory Shantou, Guangdong, China
Comments (3 of 3)
Jump To Comment: 1 2 3They should be seen more widely.
these are great paintings, exactly the sort of think IMMA would never exhibit.
that's true enough! Nor the Arts Council support. Could a tour be organised for them, however modest?
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