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...system, this wall is the most tendentious. In the bottom right corner it depicts: campesinos (tenant farmers) labouring in a field under the watchful eyes of armed overseers; two murdered campesinos above them, one hanged for being a communist and the other for being an agrarian reformer; fascist-looking police suppressing a strike; above that a worker addressing a crowd;...

...think he should get the prize at some point). For some, the pathos of what seems to be an annual exercise in disappointment has become darkly comical: 「今年こそ村上春樹がノーベル文学賞か!?」と一応煽ってからの落選という一連の様式美は、もはや伝統芸の域に達していると言ってもは過言ではあるまい。家に帰る...

...system of the arts detached it. 4 The hierarchical distinctions of the canon have come to seem out of tune with our own cultural hybridity in an epoch of globalisation. That said, no one could sensibly argue with claims for the relevance of an understanding of Renaissance art to the subsequent western tradition. 5 What stands at issue are the terms of that understanding....