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Baren Digest              Monday, 16 February 1998      Volume 02 : Number 071

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From: David Bull <davebull@asahi-net.email.ne.jp>
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 22:38:53 +0900
Subject: [Baren 395] Re: 'Appropriation' <199802131607.BAA31534@ml.asahi-net.or.jp> <199802150753.QAA36108@ml.asahi-net.or.jp> 

Graham wrote:
> The institutions had stopped accepting any work that bordered on
> appropriation be it writing or visual. It has even got down to the point
> that a white person cannot write about or use indian history in their work.

It was quite a surprise to hear this.  Why should 'Japan' and 'Canada'
have such a different view of this sort of thing?  A couple of major
libraries 'here are collecting my prints (one of them a 'National ...'
institution), and a recent magazine story on my printmaking project was
headlined 'Japanese Culture ... in good hands'.

I suppose though, that those people who disagree with what I'm doing are
the ones who don't talk to me - so I really don't get any _negative_
feedback ...

Dave

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From: Ray Esposito <brassring@brassring.org>
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 10:32:03 -0500
Subject: [Baren 396] paper 

Does anyone know where to get minogami?

Cheers

Ray Esposito

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From: Graham Scholes <gscholes@islandnet.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 07:43:06 -0800
Subject: [Baren 397] Re: 'Appropriation' 

>It was quite a surprise to hear this.  Why should 'Japan' and 'Canada'
>have such a different view of this sort of thing?

The white man has stolen, exploited and tried to educate the customs out of
the aboriginals here for a century or more . The present situation is a
backlash.

>A couple of major libraries 'here are collecting my prints (one of them a
>>'National ...'institution), and a recent magazine story on my printmaking
>>project was headlined 'Japanese Culture ... in good hands'.

Maturity of the Culture.  Congratulations.
I recall offering free to a public art gallery a large collection of work I
used to illustrate my book Watercolor and How and they refused it.???

There are two things that motivate me.  One is my work and the creative
process and the second it to be around when that public art gallery asks
for the work.

Graham

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