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From: nesScitur@husShmail.com (Ronin)
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Subject: Re: Dessins par Pierre Joubert -- !PierreJoubert.jpg (01 of 97, 4407 bytes) yEnc (0/1)
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 04:31:09 GMT
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On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:51:33 -0600, "::darkshadows::" <blood@thirsty.net> wrote:
> On 24 Feb 2009 06:21:46 GMT, nesScitur@husShmail.com (Ronin) wrote:
>> 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
Do itashimashita!
Ronin
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