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Go home

Who do you think should go home in the last line of the following text?

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For the 1953 Salon d’Automne Fougeron submitted Atlantic Civilization, a far more explicit condemnation of American and French militarism, and the American or capitalist way of life. In this painting Fougeron takes up techniques of the classical avant-garde, such as collage; yet even within this format he remained a strictly figurative painter. Nevertheless, this modernist turn away from perspectival space and a simple realist style cost him the support of his champion, the critic Louis Aragon. Cartoon-like figures punctuate the composition, which is centered around a hulking American car that a GI pokes out of as he aims his rifle at an unseen target. The car is pulled up before an electric chair, raised on a pedestal as though it were art; the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg had perhaps just taken place. In his depiction Fougeron foregrounds the ugly American way of life, but also presents its visual implications in France, in the unhealthy results of thoughtless reindustrialization, and in the cost of French military actions in Vietnam (referenced in the coffins being lowered into the ground on the painting’s right). This content must have pleased the party, as well as intellectuals like Aragon and Sartre, who both continued to voice sharp criticism about a perceived Americanization of France. However, Aragon dismissed the painting as caricature, and said a simple sign that said “go home” would be more effective.

  

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red apple Who do you think should go home in the last line of the following text? The American military, which had bases in France after the war.

  • red apple Who do you think should go home in the last line of the following text?
  • The American military, which had bases in France after the war.
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red appleWho do you think should go home in the last line of the following text?

The American military, which had bases in France after the war.

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