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Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:51:33 -0600
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On 24 Feb 2009 06:21:46 GMT, nesScitur@husShmail.com (Ronin) wrote:
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>Pierre Joubert (1910-2002) was to Le Scoutisme in France what
>Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) was to Scouting in America: the
>illustrator who not only recorded its early years, but also
>strongly influenced the way the movement saw itself.
>
>But where boys as Rockwell drew them were mostly unexceptional,
>the boys Joubert drew -- at least in his realistic art -- were
>slender, flat-bellied, and as graceful as cats: to no small
>extent, his drawings defined *the* ideal body form for several
>generations of French boys.
>
>Joubert's drawings celebrate the Boy Thing -- adventure, in a
>word -- more exuberantly than possibly any other artist: his
>boys are almost always *doing* something, and frequently doing
>it quite enthusiastically, strenuously, seriously, desperately,
>and/or heroically; Rockwell's boys are, by comparison, seldom
>more than figures in a Christmas tableau.
>
>And to those who object that some of the celebrants of the Boy
>Thing in these pictures do not appear to be... exactly *boys*,
>one can only observe that if the Boy Thing is defined as being
>What Boys Do, might it not be useful to treat anyone who does
>What Boys Do as a Boy? Why should a Pink Blanket be Destiny?
>
>And do Joubert's girls please the eye any less than his boys?
>
>
>Ronin
Thanks Ronin for posting these excellent illustrations.
darkshadows
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