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"White Lies Matter Too" is artist and political provocateur John A. Connor's most audacious, exquisitely calibrated, political artwork. It is a hard-hitting, nuanced, graceful, and poetic work worthy of the name "masterpiece." O'Connor's heavily researched, footnoted, and annotated conceptual art-as-book project of historical revisionism is the companion piece to his initial conceptual initiative published in 2020 titled "White Lies Matter: Decoding American Deceptualism."
In "White Lies Matter Too" O'Connor again sets up the image-and-text counterpoint template that was so deceptively and disarmingly user-friendly effective the first time around. O'Connor makes good visual-use of the image of the pre-industrial primary-grade child's blackboard slate. This nearly life-sized object with its wooden frame has been stamped, emblazoned, outlined, and festooned with memorabilia signifiers such as gold stars; collectible vintage, retro arcana and iconography tags; historical memorabilia; photo clippings; militaria; souvenirs and travel keepsakes; flags; post-cards; buttons; cards; toys; coins; stamps; political campaign buttons; bumper sticker-type slogan labels; and any type of image that refers to the naturalistic world such as leaves. This multitude of insignias, signs, and symbols that O'Connor uses to flesh out his written narratives puts us in a "time-machine" mode that recalls the incremental forming of the American collective unconscious and its workings through time. O'Connor's visual embellishments and their ideational contexts that we see surrounding the slate's black void are signifiers of nostalgic sentiment, upholding some past ideal that refuses to move forward. They remind us of sentiment that imposes morality or some form of stubborn loyalty.
O'Connor's scrupulously selected ornamental elements carry the weight of "feel-good" holders. They function as something that can be seen at first as relevant, fashionable, cute, fun, and romantic. Those accessories are also coded by the artist in such a way to infer the ominous potentiality for their dangerous misuse in the way they shape culture. On the opposite page to the child's slate is O'Connor's readable, engaging, exposé -like footnoted text detailing the retrofitted historical account that the artist is presenting to the world as the actual "record" of the truth.
I admire the tone of O'Connor's art project. The artist incisively researches his unveilings of submerged histories using a combination of the literary and the visual. In lesser hands, an artwork carrying so much polyvalent information might easily have devolved into pedantry or academicism. John A. O'Connor's "White Lies Matter Too" elicits outrage and relief. Outrage because his efforts at unraveling the historical perfidies, untruths, whitewashing deceptions, and hypocrisies we, as a nation, stand on makes us wonder: Will things ever change, really? Are we caught in an enervating, self-reinforcing perpetual loop, a national "eternal return" of bad faith? Are we as members of an extraordinary nation, once called "The Great Experiment," capable of changing and becoming more ethical, idealistic, and truer to our "better angels"? If so: for how long?


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9798350953176
  • Publisher: Bookbaby
  • Binding: BC
  • Language: eng
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Book 2
  • Width: 216 mm
  • ISBN-10: 8350953179
  • Publisher Date: 03 Jun 2024
  • Height: 279 mm
  • No of Pages: 158
  • Spine Width: 10 mm
  • Weight: 750 gr


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