Tag Archives: 1968
RIP Lisa Marie Presley (1968 – 2023)
Lisa Marie Presley was een Amerikaanse actrice en singer-songschrijver maar boven alles was ze de enige dochter van Elvis Presley.
Mevrouw Presley trouwde vier keer. Met Michael Jackson, Nicolas Cage en nog twee andere mannen en was moeder van vier kinderen. Een ervan pleegde zelfmoord toen hij twintig was.
Ze was bekend omwille van haar bekendheid, famous for being famous; en willens nillens was ze net als haar vader Elvis en haar ex-man Michael een tragisch slachtoffer van de cultuurindustrie. Maar zijn we dat niet allemaal?
Rust zacht Marie.
“War is good business – invest your son.”
“GET UP, STAND UP!“[1] is the title of a wonderful exhibition held at the Millennium Iconoclast Museum of Art in Brussels, featuring numerous posters of the 1968-1973 civil protests across the West.
A sampling:
“Gone with the Wind, the film to end all films”, showing Reagan and Thatcher, a criticism of the atomic bomb.
“War is good business – invest your son”, a criticism of war.
“Milk in such containers may be unfit for human consumption”, a criticism of DDT.
“The age of nations is past, the task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the earth.” —Teilhard de Chardin, a criticism of nationalism.
A Roland Topor graphic on censorship used by Scanlan’s, criticism of Nixon.
A poster mentioning the “Chicago Seven trial, G. Harold Carswell, The Cattonsville 9, Jackson State, Invasion of Cambodia, Kent State, My Lai Massacre, Alaskan pipeline, ITT scandal, Watergate Caper, 20,000 Americans dead, ? Asians dead, 26,000,000 bombs, General Lavalle, Wheat Scandal, Unemployment.”
Histoires d’A, On ne mendie pas un juste droit, on se bat pour lui (W. Reich), criticism of anticonception.
“Jesus was an only child”, criticism of anticonception. Correction: Jesus was apparently not an only child, he had brothers.