Andreas Horvath
Heartlands
Založba: Fotohof edition 2007
Cena: 29,00 €
Jezik/language: angleščina /English
Format/Size: 29,5 x 29,5 cm,
Fotografije/photos: Andreas Horvath
Besedila/texts: Lech Kowalski, Monika Muskala, Stefan Sullivan
A world of simple principles, simple communiqués, unambiguous words, like a shot from a pistol. God or Evil. An eye for an eye. Old Testament America. America as a defender of traditions and moral values. The America of the One and Only Book. It wasn’t the courts that brought order to the Wild West, but the churches. It is this America that Michael Savage addresses on the radio, author of book called Liberalism is a Mental Disorder. FOX television caters to its fears and prejudices, focusing on two rather elusive threats: sex and terrorists.
In the wilderness the truth often appears to be a fairytale and the fairytale to be true history. In private museums dinosaurs stand beside the first settlers, Lincoln beside an alien, a cannon beside the Ten Commandments, and portraits of the Founding Fathers beside legendary outlaws.
Monika Muskala
I don’t see priests. I don’t see rabbis. I don’t see shamans. I imagine shiny-faced blow-dried snappily dressed car salesmen. Religious leaders. That’s the best I can call them. Politicians. They are not men of the cloth but men that use words from the Bible to sell something. Something American. A product that is heaven on earth even though they are preaching heaven after death. They are preaching heaven in America. America is heaven. It is the biggest, the best, but mainly it’s free. And of course there are certainly places in America that feel huge, the biggest and the most awesomely powerful. Yes, as far as the eye can see, Ameri9ca covered by the religion that is America. Freedom.
Lech Kowalski