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[[Art & Language]]<ref>Art & Language and The Red Crayola, ‘[https://www.art-language.org/texte/a/TI71h.htm#anglais Notes on the Songs]’, booklet published in connection with L.P. ''Kangaroo?,'' Rough Trade records, London, 1981.</ref><blockquote>The ''Milkmaid'' is a monstrosity of detente. It is also didactic. It refers to a real picture, a wall mosaic in the USSR. | |||
The language of the song refers to the language of those who would claim that the picture is both socialist and realist. It is the rhapsodic language of bureaucratic lyricism. | |||
The music of the song refers to some Western formulae of romantic innocence and sensitivity: cabaret pastorale. | |||
The performance of the song is a didactic act by agents estranged from the materials of which it is composed. | |||
A resolution of this monstrosity is possible only as a consequence of an inquiry which seeks to explain the mechanisms of these genetic materials. The contradictions of the present are such as to make such an inquiry only partly thinkable.</blockquote> | |||
== References == | == References == | ||
Revision as of 03:13, 1 March 2023
Lyrics
The figure of the young milkmaid Is full of live plasticity The picture of the young milkmaid Is full of virtuosity
The rhythm of patient work is there — It's in her arms, her legs, her waist The look is guarded and severe In her clean young open face
See what her snow-white smock reveals Stretched by her blooming young body; She lifts her heavy milking pails — But she's cultured — not just anybody
She's radiant with happiness And content with her fulfilled life; She's beautiful and so graceful; She would make someone a good wife
And we can sense in her movements Rhythmic devices: she'll master Technological improvement That makes progress happen faster
The picture of the young milkmaid Is made only of mosaic But it's a monumental work Healthy, joyful and heroic
Chronology
Kangaroo?
- [[File:|20x20px|link=C81|]] C81
An Old Man's Dream
Singles
Interpretations
The Milkmaid is a monstrosity of detente. It is also didactic. It refers to a real picture, a wall mosaic in the USSR.
The language of the song refers to the language of those who would claim that the picture is both socialist and realist. It is the rhapsodic language of bureaucratic lyricism.
The music of the song refers to some Western formulae of romantic innocence and sensitivity: cabaret pastorale.
The performance of the song is a didactic act by agents estranged from the materials of which it is composed.
A resolution of this monstrosity is possible only as a consequence of an inquiry which seeks to explain the mechanisms of these genetic materials. The contradictions of the present are such as to make such an inquiry only partly thinkable.
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- ↑ Art & Language and The Red Crayola, ‘Notes on the Songs’, booklet published in connection with L.P. Kangaroo?, Rough Trade records, London, 1981.