"Wall-E" and art history
Monday July 7, 2008
Categories: Culture, Decline and fall
James Poulos mines gold from the knockout credits sequence of "Wall-E," which in his view offers a telling commentary on the meaning, or lack thereof, of 20th-century art -- which, as Poulos suggests, given the dystopic setting of the film,...
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How very Prussian!
I believe Dr. Goebbels said much the same thing in his comments on the art of his time.
Yes, Charles, and Hitler was a vegetarian. What's your point?
Darn it Charles, you beat me to it!
I call Godwin: Reductio ad Hitlerum.
But Rod, isn't his whole point invalidated by the fact that the end of the credits is done in early-80s Atari style? Or is the Pixar crew maybe suggesting that computer-rendered art is picking up the lost tradition of pre-WWI Europe (a pretty heady claim, given the source)?
Or do I just need to RTFA?
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