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Posted by parhad (Guest) - Tuesday, August 3 2004, 21:21:56 (CEST)
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Paul Younan wrote:
>Making Assyrian artwork doesn't count. Anyone black, white or chinese who is as talented in sculpting as you are can make a piece just as magnificent as your Ashurbanipal.

...no they canªt. Any savage anywhere can be brought to church. When there is no one to pay you and you have to use own money..when there is no precedent...no organization, no support system...when there is no expressed need, when people arenªt asking you for it...when it hasnªt been done for 2500, it takes an Assyrian to do it. It took Christians to STOP the next one.

...there was no artistry at all in the monument itself...it was merely a modern rendition of some combined elements I chose from our past...there is nothing magnificent in the actual sculpture at all. There is some technical skill and a few aesthetic choices were made. But there IS something magnificent in the spirit behind it. Sure...had there been a competitoon and funding and place chosen and all the rest of it that goes into securing the best bits of puclic land in such cities as Chicago and San Francisco where NO money couold buy or rent them...then a Chinese...even a Christian could have done it.

...but with the landscape as bleak and dreary as it has been for centuries..with people having to be convinced every step of the way that the monument was important...with having to knock on peopleªs heads who never bought a sculpture in their lives and convince them to...with having to get them to BELIEVE an Assyrian could do more than commit cultural suicide...with all the obstacles and ignorance and fear and prejudice to overcome...no one could have done it BUT an Assyrian. We always blazed trails...you fell into ditches along the way.
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>How the hell are you so confident that you're an Assyrian? Don't give me that warm-fuzzy feeling you had at the museum crap, either. It could have been gas for all I know.

...gas never produced a monument yet. I know...but I SHOW too.
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>How do you know?

...you already know there is no answer to it...if I do the work, then I am the worker. Thatªs enough for me.

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absurd Paul... parhad - Tuesday, August 3 2004, 2:40:34 (CEST)
- and another thing... parhad - 08/03 03:11
  - It's something you can't understand... Paul Younan - 08/03 06:31
    - Re: It's something you can't understand... parhad - 08/03 12:06
      - Like I said, you can't understand... Paul Younan - 08/03 16:42
        Re: Like I said, you can't understand... parhad - 08/03 17:40
        Is that all it took? Paul Younan - 08/03 18:48
        Re: Is that all it took? parhad - 08/03 21:11
        Re: Is that all it took? Paul Younan - 08/03 21:23
        Re: Is that all it took? parhad - 08/03 22:18
        Re: Is that all it took? Paul Younan - 08/03 22:40
        Re: Is that all it took? parhad - 08/03 23:01
        Re: Is that all it took? Paul Younan - 08/03 23:13
        Re: Is that all it took? Jeff - 08/05 06:45
        Re: Is that all it took? Paul Younan - 08/05 16:46
        Re: Is that all it took? parhad - 08/05 17:33
        
        Re: Is that all it took? Jeff - 08/08 23:15
        Re: Is that all it took? Paul Younan - 08/09 16:46
        Re: Is that all it took? parhad - 08/09 17:24
        Re: Is that all it took? Paul Younan - 08/09 20:25
        Re: Is that all it took? parhad - 08/09 23:01
- Absurd Fred! Paul Younan - 08/03 06:25
  - Re: Absurd Fred! Jeff - 08/03 06:59
    - Israel parhad - 08/03 12:52
      - Re: Israel Paul Younan - 08/03 16:25
        Re: Israel parhad - 08/03 18:06
    - Re: Absurd Fred! Paul Younan - 08/03 16:17
      - Re: Absurd Fred! parhad - 08/03 16:27
        Re: Absurd Fred! Paul Younan - 08/03 16:36
        Re: Absurd Fred! parhad - 08/03 17:13
        Re: Absurd Fred! Paul Younan - 08/03 19:00
        Re: Absurd Fred! parhad - 08/03 21:21
        Re: Absurd Fred! Paul Younan - 08/03 21:36
        Re: Absurd Fred! parhad - 08/03 23:33
        
        Re: Absurd Fred! Paul Younan - 08/03 21:54
        Re: Absurd Fred! parhad - 08/03 22:27
        Re: Absurd Fred! Paul Younan - 08/03 22:51
        Re: Absurd Paul hehehehe parhad - 08/03 23:04
  - Re: Absurd Fred! parhad - 08/03 12:44

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