{"id":99489,"date":"2016-06-20T09:01:10","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T13:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=99489"},"modified":"2016-06-20T12:21:37","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T16:21:37","slug":"the-color-of-dirty-death-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/20\/the-color-of-dirty-death-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The Color of Dirty Death, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_99490\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1667-768x461.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-99490\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-99490\" class=\"wp-image-99490\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1667-768x461.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1667-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1667-768x461-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-99490\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ugliest color of them all.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Start your week off right: take a long, hard look at the world\u2019s ugliest color, Pantone 448C, aka \u201copaque couch\u00e9.\u201d Redolent of baby shit and capable of summoning all kinds of grime in the mind\u2019s eye, 448C is powerfully ugly: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/304550\/in-defense-of-the-worlds-ugliest-color-opaque-couche\/\" target=\"_blank\">The\u00a0agency GfK Bluemoon\u00a0had\u00a01,000 smokers select\u00a0the\u00a0colors they found most visually repellent<\/a>. Respondents overwhelmingly associated\u00a0Pantone 448C\u00a0with words like <em>dirty<\/em>, <em>death<\/em>, and <em>tar<\/em>. The Australian federal government initially referred to the color as \u2018olive green,\u2019 but changed their terminology to \u2018drab dark brown\u2019 after the Australian Olive Association expressed concern for the reputation of olives. After the study, Australia made Pantone 448C the predominant color on its\u00a0mandatory plain packaging for tobacco products \u2026 Since 2012, smoking in Australia has, in fact, decreased.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Talking with Sofiane Hadjadj, cofounder of the Algerian publishing house Editions Barzakh, at a bookseller in Algiers: \u201cYoung Algerians are eager to write, but most see it \u2018as a form of therapy\u2019, Hadjadj said (not unlike their counterparts in Europe and America). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/06\/16\/ursula-lindsey\/the-bookseller-of-algiers\/\" target=\"_blank\">There aren\u2019t many who can both describe their daily reality and achieve the necessary distance to transform it into narrative<\/a> \u2026 Arabic literature generally is at an \u2018inflection point\u2019, according to Hadjadj. The great leftist writers of the 1960s, such as Elias Khoury and Sonallah Ibrahim, who had a strong vision of society, have been succeeded by a generation with more questions. \u2018Should one write about oneself, about the world, about globalization, about jihadism?\u2019 Hadjadj asked. \u2018You need a somewhat stable vision of society to write a novel, but it is changing all the time, and we don\u2019t understand it.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Francis Al\u00ffs\u2019s new paintings depict life in Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez, so to look at them is to ask that age-old question: Is art at all useful in helping us come to grips with massive acts of violence and suffering? \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/prospero\/2016\/06\/ciudad-ju-rez\" target=\"_blank\">It might seem unlikely that an artist like Francis Al\u00ffs would be able to engage in any meaningful way with life in Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez<\/a>. He is known for a poetic and absurdist mentality, sending a peacock as his representative to the Venice Biennial of 2001, for example, or arranging for a troop of Household Cavalry to march through the center of London in 2004. Yet the sensitive and understated works on display here pack a powerful punch \u2026 The centerpiece of the exhibition is a striking film of Mr. Al\u00ffs slowly kicking a flaming football through the dark night of downtown Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez, attracting stares from locals and scaring away stray dogs as police sirens wail in the distance. The vision is haunting, and the details picked up by the camera as it tracks his progress make reference to the city\u2019s many problems: the sex trade, the drug trade, the ambiguous role played by the police. Perhaps the beautiful but oblique film is guilty, as Sartre put it, of reducing cruelty to the abstract. But then so do statistics.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Ingri and Edgar Parin D\u2019Aulaire are remembered for their <em>Book of Greek Myths<\/em>, from 1962\u2014one of the most popular children\u2019s books of all time. But they made a much less well-known book about America, too, and it\u2019s appropriately mythic: \u201c \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/the-daulaires-book-of-greek-myths-is-famous-but-what-about-their-forgotten-american-stories\" target=\"_blank\">Virginia was once a wilderness<\/a>,\u2019 the D\u2019Aulaires write. \u2018Wild beasts lived there, and swift Indians ran through grass and swamps\u2019 \u2026 Columbus\u2019 story gets treated even more like a fairy tale. \u2018There once was a boy \/ who loved the salty sea,\u2019 it begins \u2026 Like any mythological hero, the D\u2019Aulaires\u2019 George Washington has powers beyond those of ordinary men. He\u2019s stronger than other boys and rides his horse more skillfully. He can hurl a rock across the width of the river. He\u2019s shot, but unharmed. Lincoln is also demigod-like, when they tell of how he \u2018wrestled with the strongest and toughest of them all, and threw them to the ground.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Today in the ironies of intellectual-property law: a new suit contends that Woody Guthrie\u2019s \u201cThis Land Is Your Land,\u201d belongs, in fact, to us, just as the land supposedly does. But all the land in America isn\u2019t actually in the public domain, and the song might not be, either. \u201c[The suit] is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/06\/18\/business\/media\/this-guthrie-song-is-your-song-a-lawsuit-claims.html\" target=\"_blank\">aimed at liberating a song known to generations of schoolchildren who have raised their voices to sing about a free country belonging to one and all<\/a>, sprawling \u2018from California to the New York Island, from the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters\u2019 \u2026 Guthrie wrote the song in 1940 in response to the Irving Berlin song \u2018God Bless America,\u2019 which he felt inadequately addressed land and wealth inequality \u2026 In 1945, he published the song with a copyright notice that was never renewed \u2026 As a result, that copyright would have expired\u2014and the song would have entered the public domain\u2014twenty-eight years later, in 1973.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Start your week off right: take a long, hard look at the world\u2019s ugliest color, Pantone 448C, aka \u201copaque couch\u00e9.\u201d Redolent of baby shit and capable of summoning all kinds of grime in the mind\u2019s eye, 448C is powerfully ugly: \u201cThe\u00a0agency GfK Bluemoon\u00a0had\u00a01,000 smokers select\u00a0the\u00a0colors they found most visually repellent. Respondents overwhelmingly associated\u00a0Pantone 448C\u00a0with words [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[291,12555,22892,6604,22889,22891,22893,22894,22888,4154,22887,22890,13487,22895,8093],"class_list":["post-99489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-algeria","tag-childrens-literature","tag-ciudad-juarez","tag-colors","tag-drabs","tag-francis-alys","tag-ingri-and-edgar-parin-daulaire","tag-intellectual-property","tag-opaque-couche","tag-paintings","tag-pantone-448c","tag-sofiane-hadjadj","tag-songs","tag-this-land-is-your-land","tag-woody-guthrie"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Is This 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