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The Gold Standard
Pictured is a work of art by Rauschenberg entitled Gold Standard. Although it may relate to Polanyi's text only obliquely, I think this work can be read as sympathetic to some of the ideas presented in the text. Rauschenberg's work combines blurred the line between painting and sculpture; many of the elements of this work were simply found on the street when the artist spent time in Japan. These objects seem to be the leftovers of a rabidly rebuilding (or would it be nascent in the case of post WWII Japan?) capitalist economy. I am loth to illuminate via cliche but the phrase "One man's trash is another man's treasure" comes to mind. When looking at this piece, I am also reminded of the ways that arguably meaningless currency was assumed stable and viable across nations according to the Gold Standard in the view of economic liberalism. I am also drawn to the dog tethered to the gold partition, there seems to be a latent metaphor in there somewhere. These are merely brief comments on works that both deserve more time and attention. Dzula 17:40, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
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