Rose is a rose is a rose: Gregory Sholette on Hans Haacke's memorial to Rosa Luxemburg.(ON SITE)(Column)

Artforum International | November 1, 2006| | Copyright

EVERY BELIEF SYSTEM requires a mythical hero, idolized in death, yet whose legacy is open to multiple interpretations. In the United States, for example, blue states revere the figure of JFK; red states, Ronald Reagan. In the 1920s the Wobblies lionized Joe Hill, and in the '70s radicals looked to Malcolm X. Today iPod-shuffling art students and e-marketing executives alike might sport Che Guevara's ragged silhouette, a trademark for what Thomas Frank has called the "counter-cultural capitalist orthodoxy." Nevertheless, for any true-blue red around the world there remains an ...

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