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Kandinsky, Wassily
Kandinsky, Wassily 1866-1944
Russian painter, critic, and poet.
Considered one of the most influential painters of the German Expressionist movement, Kandinsky is best known for his artistic and theoretical contributions to the development of nonrepresentational, or abstract, art. Using brilliant colors in compositions of geometric shapes and lines, he sought to communicate experiences and emotions through a purely visual language divested of all symbolic or narrative content. In doing so, Kandinsky redefined traditional concepts of the picture plane and provided the rationale for much of modern art.
Biographical Information
Kandinsky was born to an affluent family in Moscow and educated in Odessa, a port city in the southern Ukraine. In 1886 he enrolled in a program of law, economics, and politics at Moscow University, where, after graduating in 1893, he accepted a position on the Faculty of Law. During his years as a student and instructor, he became fascinated with art, and after viewing the paintings of the French Impressionists in 1895 he abandoned his teaching position to study painting. As a student at the Munich Academy of Art, he developed and interest in Art Noveau or Jugendstil, a movement whose adherents promoted decorative art. By 1901, Kandinsky had become a noteworthy figure in the art community in Munich. Critics generally refer to the years between 1908 and 1914—when Kandinsky first espoused abstractionism—as the period of his greatest achievements. According to an often-cited anecdote, Kandinsky's "discovery" of abstract art occurred in 1908 when, struck by the beauty and originality of one of his own paintings, he realized that the work had been turned upside-down; the figures he had found especially pleasing and communicative owed their advantage to their lack of conventional denotation.
In 1912 Kandinsky, along with his colleagues Gabriele Münter, Franz Marc, and August Macke, formed the Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) group. Blue Rider offered a forum in its publication Blaue Reiter Almanack for the diverse viewpoints concerning art, music, and architecture found in the Expressionist movement. At the onset of World War I, he returned to Russia, where he remained for seven years, teaching art at the University of Moscow and serving as a consultant for the country's cultural education program. In 1922 Kandinsky accepted a teaching position on the staff of the Bauhaus, Germany's creative center for architecture and design. He remained as an instructor at the Bauhaus until 1933, when the National Socialist Government forced the school to close. He then moved to Paris where he set up a studio and devoted his time to painting. He died in 1944.
Major Works
Kandinsky's early paintings were highly stylized and colorful landscapes that reflect the influence of the Fauvists, often containing figures reminiscent of fairy tale and Russian folklore characters, as in his Couple Riding of 1905. After his discovery of abstract art in 1908, his paintings became increasingly abstract, consisting of black lines and vividly colored arcs and triangles in compositions dominated by blue, purple, yellow, and red, colors that he believed representative of specific psychological states, In addition to painting, he documented the artistic principles upon which he based his use of color and form, publishing his theories as Concerning the Spiritual in Art in 1911. This essay proved to be one of the most influential treatises on art ever written. His later work is generally considered a culmination of his talents, and most critics note that the geometric and organic shapes in his later works are more precisely defined and more intricate in dimension, than those of his earlier works, creating an impression of energy and movement.
Critical Reception
While Kandinsky's delineation of the aims of abstract art is regarded as eloquent and important, many critics contend that his own work often failed to incorporate the principles he advanced. Such critics note in particular that his paintings do not achieve his goal of creating nonrepresentational works that would transcend mere decoration through their power to express ideas and emotions. However, Kandinsky's theories were successfully realized by subsequent artists and art movements, and he is therefore acknowledged as the primary theorist of modern abstractionism.
Principal Works
Klänge [Sounds] (prose poems) 1912
Über das Geistige in der Kunst [Concerning the Spiritual in Art] (criticism) 1912
Punkt und Linie zu Flache: Beitrag zur Analyse der malerischen Elemente [Point and Line to Plane: Contributions to the Analysis of the Pictorial Elements] (criticism) 1926
Kandinsky: The Bauhaus Years (catalog) 1966
Ecrits Complets. 2 vols. [Kandinsky: Complete Writings on Art] (criticism) 1970
Arnold Schönberg, Wassily Kandinsky: Briefe, Bilder und Dokumente einer aussergewöhnlichen Begegnung [Arnold Schoenberg, Wassily Kandinsky: Letters, Pictures, and Documents] (letters) 1980
Kandinsky: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil-Paintings. 2 vols. (catalog) 1982
Kandinsky: Watercolors and Drawings (catalog) 1992
Kandinsky (catalog) 1999
Wassily Kandinsky (essay date 1899)
SOURCE: "Secession," in Critical Inquiry, Vol. 23, No. 4, Summer, 1997, p. 729.
[In the following translation of an 1899 review, Kandinsky assesses the work shown at the 1899 Munich Secession's international exhibit.]
Kandinsky's review of the 1899 Munich Secession's international exhibition is his first major art essay.1 It appeared in Novosti dnia (News of the Day), 4 November 1899, a prominent Moscow daily newspaper covering local, national, and international events, with occasional features on literature and art. Its discovery revises the status given to Kandinsky's 1901 article "Critique of Critics,"2 which has been credited by Western scholars as his first essay on art.3 "Secession"'s publication thus gives us some of the earliest indications of Kandinsky's views on art, when he was a student in Munich. It was written only weeks before the approaching new century at a time when Kandinsky witnessed profound changes in art whose impact would be felt for years to come.
In "Secession," Kandinsky recognized art's affinity with the momentum of the changing age and the promise it would bring for greater innovation and expertise. The essay was a response to debates within Russia's art community on the value of such progress to Russian culture and society. "Secession" follows a series of articles written in 1898 and 1899—among others, Igor Grabar's "Decline or Renaissance?" and Sergei Diaghilev's "Complicated Questions"4—that challenged Russian realism's dominance and resistance to artistic change. These authors sought legitimacy for "decadent" Western European art, such as impressionism, postimpressionism, and symbolism, as an arbiter of progress for contemporary art in Russia. Western European art, in all its innovation and potential as a salvation for Russia's stagnant art climate, offered Russian artists a means of expressing their individuality freely; they thus defied the dated and repressive policies promoted by the Russian realists and the tsarist art academy. Kandinsky's review of the Munich Secession exhibition provided him with a means of broadening the Russian public's awareness of a pervasive international phenomenon. Artists throughout Europe were progressing towards individual expression as an acceptable form of artistic behavior. Popular support for this movement gave it a level of credibility difficult for even its most ardent Russian opponents to challenge.
Kandinsky was already painting at the time he wrote his review and was attuned to the changes in techniques and materials impacting Europe's art world so deeply. In painting, artists' rediscovery of tempera provided them with the technical means of treating color differently. Tempera's properties as a stable, quick-drying pigment, whose colors produced a bright and intense richness, were conducive to the creation of paintings in which artists could assert themselves through color as an expression of their individuality. The significance of this development in painting was paralleled by the Arts and Crafts Movement, which had elevated goods from their merely functional value to a higher art form, as a source of spiritual enrichment. Beauty became a commodity available not only to the cultured elite but to the masses. Sold in the form of household items designed by artists, their sense of color, line, and materials brought the industry an aesthetic sensibility that had been heretofore unseen.
Kandinsky's message of progress and artistic reform and its power as an indicator of what art would become in the future century was tempered three years later, however, in his 1902 review of the Munich Secession and Artists' Association (Kunstlergenossenschaft) exhibitions, entitled "Correspondence from Munich."5 As the new age failed to bring with it a consistent path of achievement, Kandinsky was unable to offer his Russian public the level of encouragement he had so willingly expressed in his earlier review. The work of many artists in both shows fell short of his expectations as artists' evolution towards mastering the synthesis of individual expression with technique and style either did not materialize in its own right or succumbed to faddish trends.
In one of my first accounts of Munich's art exhibits I spoke, by the way, of that strange and still-yielding impression, which turned up among spectators in the exhibition halls devoted to Scottish painting. I spoke of the tiresomeness and monotony of that foggy veil which covered these artists' paintings: fog in the morning, afternoon, evening, and night, with sun and in overcast weather; fog, appearing in landscape, genre, portrait, a beautiful fog, giving that fairy-tale and peculiarly poetic impression, but with too often recurring persistence as if by order of law, until exhausted. Arising now and then on its own but most of the time drifting over from Scotland, this foggy mood was cultivated in the painting of countries all over the world.
And it is just now, perhaps, that a reaction is beginning: pure and intense light, purity and brightness of colors are beginning to burn here and there with intense patches among many others, immersed as usual in a dull haze of paintings. I am not presuming to confirm with assurance that time will disintegrate these weakened colors sooner or later. But another tendency is already clearly emerging. In places, the bright sun shines, which is of a specific character; the mood of dusk that not too long ago took first place among motifs is now beginning to be interpreted differently—the purity and intensity of colors stare out shyly even in overcast weather. Munich's exhibit of innovators in art, this year's "Secession," will give a rough picture of these two trends in contemporary painting.
Whistler's brilliant words on the harmony of dusk flew all over the world with astonishing speed. It was also often reiterated by them that true beauty springs up with the death of day. "When the evening mist," said that great artist,
clothes the riverside with poetry, as with a veil, and the poor buildings lose themselves in the dim sky, and the tall chimneys become campanili, and the warehouses are palaces in the night, and the whole city hangs in the heavens, and fairy-land is before us—then the wayfarer hastens home; the working man and the cultured one, the wise man and the one of pleasure, cease to understand, as they have ceased to see, and Nature, who, for once, has sung in tune, sings her exquisite song to the artist alone, her son and her master—her son in that he loves her, her master, in that he knows her.6
The matter has come to the point where some of the most exceptional artists have begun to look at the sun through the dusky prism. They go to extremes trying to soften tones and turn the sun's spot into an apparition. The famous Scotsman Brangwyn, whose influence spread all over Europe in its turn and found avid supporters in Munich, acts in this fashion. This year a decorative panel was presented to these supporters at the "Secession": a few nude male figures playing classical pipes in a mist-filled sunny glade amidst trees with translucent shadows. As usual, it is an extremely pretty and interesting piece. The young and talented Angello Jank of Munich exhibited several pieces, which bore extremely close resemblance in tones to those of the Scotsman. His knights are very beautiful in the gloomy evening hours. The well-known Englishman Greiffenhagen submitted Annunciation, in which, as always, he combined the same foggy color treatment with the composition of the true offshoots of the English Pre-Raphaelites. The Municher Pipho reflected the same colors in his own work as if in a mirror. The forefather of all of Munich's school and on the whole of most of Germany's landscapists, Dill, again submitted several ultrafoggy pictures. The prominent French artist Carriere exhibited fog in the form of a portrait. From Russia fog was sent by Levitan (Silence).
And here, in the midst of this international assembly of fogs, patches of the new light caught on fire in some places. While this new light is not very obvious, nor stands on its own, it is still anxiously and timidly forging a path. Among the forefathers of this trend we welcome with steadfast fondness Claude Monet and alongside him the great Bocklin who, almost at the same time, could both paint colorless tones of oleographic pigments and create colorisi masterpieces. The tempera and oil paintings of other artists follow them, following the path of purity of tones and intensity of coloring. Of those who seek to resolve this problem with oil paints, there is not one who could sustain the purity of intense colors throughout the piece. Professor of the Munich Academy L. Herterich, in his Ulrich von Hutten, combined intense and pure tones on the armor with muddy and boring colors in a huge painting of a crucifixion and the head of a knight. Hierl-Deronco's huge painted canvas—Garden of Love—a row of female figures in a landscape—gave the most tasteless combination of intense strokes of color with the blackness and mud of...
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Peter Selz (essay date 1957)
SOURCE: "Esthetic Theories of Wassily Kandinsky," in German Expressionist Painting, University of California Press, 1957, pp. 223-33.
[In the following essay, Selz delineates the major themes of Kandinsky's theoretical writings, in particular his Concerning the Spiritual in Art and "Über die Formfrage. "]
The artistic purpose of the Blaue Reiter movement was most thoroughly articulated in Kandinsky's theoretical writings, especially the two essays, Concerning the Spiritual in Art and "Über die Formfrage," published in Der Blaue Reiter. Although these essays, which both appeared in 1912,1 are largely based on earlier esthetic theory,...
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Herbert Read (essay date 1967)
SOURCE: "The Lucid Order of Wassily Kandinsky," in Art and Alienation: The Role of the Artist in Society, Horizon Press, 1967, pp. 138-50.
[In the following essay, Read traces the development of Kandinsky's painting and philosophy of art.]
As a painter Kandinsky's achievement was coherent in development, original in style, and accumulative in force; but the painting was the direct expression of a slowly matured philosophy of art. It is possible that this philosophy of art has as much significance for the future as the paintings that were its outcome, but in this essay I shall try to show how the philosophy and the painting evolved, step by step in dialectical...
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Charles W. Millard (essay date 1973)
SOURCE: "The Kandinsky Paradox," in The Hudson Review, Vol. XXVI, No. 1, Spring, 1973, pp. 177-87.
[In the following essay, Millard maintains that although Kandinsky was a great theoretician, he was not a great painter.]
Because Kandinsky occupies a particularly prominent place in the development of twentieth-century painting there has been an unspoken tendency to assume that his is an art of the first quality. If not ranked with the work of masters such as Matisse, it is tacitly presumed to occupy a place among the output of the major painters not much below the top level. It is, therefore, something of a shock to review a sizable and representative selection of his...
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Alwynne Mackie (essay date 1978)
SOURCE: "Kandinsky and Problems of Abstraction," in Artforum, Vol. XVII, No. 3, November, 1978, pp. 58-63.
[In the following essay, Mackie explores the role of abstract form in Kandinsky's art and artistic philosophy.]
In a very sympathetic article Hilton Kramer once voiced his misgivings (and disappointments) about Kandinsky, arriving at the view that he populated naturalistic (19th-century landscape) space with abstract forms and was unable to come to terms with the pictorial implications of the tendency of abstract forms to flatten space.1 Implicit in this criticism, of course, is the assumption that abstract forms demand a certain kind of spatial...
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Jonathan Fineberg (essay date 1979)
SOURCE: "'Les Tendances Nouvelles', The Union Internationale Des Beaux-Arts, Des Lettres, Des Sciences et De L'Industrie and Kandinsky," in Art History, Vol. 2, No. 2, June, 1979, pp. 221-46.
[In the following essay, Fineberg traces Kandinsky's relationship with the influential art journal Les Tendances Nouvelles.]
The Parisian revue, Les Tendances Nouvelles, emerged in May of 1904 as part of an ambitious enterprise, consisting not only of a periodical, but of a gallery, an exhibition society, and an international artists' co-operative with explicitly Utopian goals. This...
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Rose-Carol Washton Long (essay date 1980)
SOURCE: "Kandinsky's Vision," in The Life of Vasilii Kandinsky in Russian Art: A Study of 'On the Spiritual in Art', edited by John E. Bowlt and Rose-Carol Washton Long, and translated by John Bowlt, Oriental Research Partners, 1980, pp. 43-61.
[In the following essay, Long analyzes the purpose and meaning of Kandinsky's On the Spiritual in Art, maintaining that the artist "attempted to resolve the dilemma of how to effectively communicate a vision of man's spirituality while avoiding both materialistic representation on the one hand and decorative ornament on the other. "]
The publication of Kandinsky's On the Spiritual in Art in 19121 can be...
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Elizabeth R. Napier (essay date 1981)
SOURCE: An introduction to Wassily Kandinsky: Sounds, translated and with an introduction by Elizabeth R. Napier, Yale University Press, 1981, pp. 134-36.
[In the following essay, Napier provides a stylistic and thematic overview of Kandinsky's poetry. ]
In 1938, recalling the publication of Klänge, Kandinsky spoke of it as "a small example of synthetic work":
This is, for me, a "change of instrument"—the palette to one side and the typewriter in its place. I use the word "instrument" because the force which motivates my work remains unchanged, an "inner drive." And it is this very drive which calls for a frequent...
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Stephen Spender (essay date 1981)
SOURCE: "The Glow of Irreality," in New York Review of Books, Vol. XXVIII, No. 13, August 13, 1981, pp. 40-43.
[In the following favorable review of Sounds, Spender considers the relationship between Kandinsky's poetry and his painting.]
The coincidence of the exhibition "Kandinsky: The Improvisations" at the National Gallery of Art in Washington with the publication of Elizabeth Napier's translation of Kandinsky's book Sounds (Klänge) is happy. Both belong approximately to the second decade of the present century. Kandinsky painted the first Improvisation in 1909. In 1913 Klänge, a volume of thirty-eight prose poems and fifty-six woodcuts,...
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Carter Radcliff (essay date 1982)
SOURCE: "Kandinsky's Book of Revelation," in Art in America, December, 1982, pp. 105-09, 157-59.
[In the following essay, Radcliff examines the apocalyptic vision in Kandinsky's seminal essay, Concerning the Spiritual in Art, and compares it to the biblical book of Revelation.]
I would like to propose that Expressionism enjoys a special relationship with apocalypse. This is not a new idea. The Expressionists themselves came up with it. Nor, I must admit, does this notion permit us to draw very clear lines. What modernist style has not served as a more or less sensitive seismograph of our century's millennial tremors? High modernism aside, every plateau of the...
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Marian Pester (essay date 1983)
SOURCE: "Kandinsky: The Owl of Minerva," in Passion and Rebellion: The Expressionist Heritage, edited by Stephen Eric Bronner and Douglas Kellner, J. F. Bergin Publishers, Inc., 1983, pp. 250-75.
[In the following essay, Pester deems Kandinsky and his work an embodiment of the revolutionary ideas spreading throughout Europe during the early twentieth century.]
Kandinsky (1866-1944) was one of the foremost philosophers of the abstract expressionist movement in painting. He was an artist of unsurpassed lucidity who refused to choose for the "analytical" against the "mystical/lyrical," and successfully materialized his vision in oils, watercolor, and graphics. At...
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Jed Rasula (essay date 1983)
SOURCE: A review of Sounds, in American Book Review, Vol. 5, No. 2, January-February, 1983, pp. 4-5.
[In the following review, Rasula offers a positive assessment of Kandinsky's Sounds, deeming it "one of the essential books of poetry of the century, whatever one may think of Kandinsky's art. "]
One of the essential conjunctions between modernists that never came to pass was a meeting between Kandinsky and the London artists of the Wyndham Lewis/Ezra Pound circle. Not that any such meeting was ever a possibility, but the English translation of Sounds makes one wish it had come to pass, somehow, more for Pound's benefit than Kandinsky's, I should...
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Rose-Carol Washton Long (essay date 1987)
SOURCE: "Occultism, Anarchism, and Abstraction: Kandinsky's Art of the Future," in Art Journal, Vol. 46, No. 1, Spring, 1987, pp. 38-45.
[In the following essay, Long determines the influence of occultism and anarchism on Kandinsky's writings and art.]
As art historians in recent years have examined the development of modern art, it has become more and more apparent that the interest in occult and mystical knowledge evinced by many artists was often part of a search for alternatives to restrictive social and political attitudes and outworn conventions. For solutions to the problems created by an increasingly industrialized and commercialized society, many artists...
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Roger Lipsey (essay date 1988)
SOURCE: "Wassily Kandinsky in the Years of On the Spiritual in Art'," in An Art of Our Own: The Spiritual in Twentieth-Century Art, Shambhala, 1988, pp. 40-50.
[In the following essay, Lipsey provides an overview of the major themes of Kandinsky's seminal essay, contending that "its essential achievement was to identify the new art as a legitimate language of the spirit and to lay groundwork for a way of thinking, particularly about abstract art, that made sense. "]
More deliberately than any artist of our time, Kandinsky explored the spiritual in art through his work as a painter and through writings—articulate, generous, impassioned—which circulated the idea of...
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Michael Faherty (essay date 1992)
SOURCE: "Kandinsky at the Klavier: Stevens and the Musical Theory of Wassily Kandinsky," in The Wallace Stevens Journal Vol. 16, No. 2, Fall, 1992, pp. 151-60.
[In the following essay, Faherty explores Wallace Stevens's interest in Kandinsky's work.]
In June 1952, Stevens wrote to the Irish poet and art historian Thomas McGreevy:
It made Kandinsky for me. I had not seen much of his work up to then and certainly not enough to make it possible to see it as a minor cosmos, which it is. It is the sort of thing that is wholly esthetic and wholly delightful. And from that point of view it seemed valid. (Brazeau)
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Michael Faherty (essay date 1992)
SOURCE: "The Third Dimension: Ezra Pound and Wassily Kandinsky," in Paideuma, Vol. 21, No. 3, Winter, 1992, pp. 63-77.
[In the following essay, Faherty determines the influence of Kandinsky's theoretical writings on the work of the poet Ezra Pound.]
The very first English critic to review Wassily Kandinsky's Über das Geistige in der Kunst was also the first to recognize its potential impact on the future of modern poetry. Writing in the arts journal Rhythm in the spring of 1912, shortly after Kandinsky's book first appeared on the shelves of Munich bookshops, Michael Sadler predicted that Kandinsky's theories of abstraction would not only alter the course of...
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Carol McKay (essay date 1994)
SOURCE: "Kandinsky's Ethnography: Scientific Field Work and Aesthetic Reflection," in Art History, Vol. 17, No. 2, June, 1994, pp. 182-208.
[In the following essay, McKay discusses Kandinsky's ethnographic essay "From Materials on the Ethnography of the Sysol and Vechegda Zyrians: The National Deities" and relates it to his autobiographical essay "Reminiscences. "]
This article explores how, in two essays written at separate moments of his adult career, Wassily Kandinsky represented the same ethnographic fieldwork experience in quite differing terms. The first of these essays is a scientific one: Kandinsky's 'From Materials on the Ethnography of the Sysol and Vechegda...
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William R. Everdell (essay date 1997)
SOURCE: "Vassily Kandinsky: Art With No Object, 1911-1912," in The First Moderns: Profiles in the Origins of Twentieth-Century Thought, University of Chicago Press, 1997, pp. 303-20.
[In the following essay, Everdell investigates Kandinsky 's prolific output during the year 1911-1912.]
The tall, narrow roofs of the Promenadenplatz and Maximiliansplatz, which have now disappeared, the old part of Schwabing, and especially the Au, which I discovered by chance on one occasion, turned these fairy-tales into reality. The blue trams threaded their way through the streets like an incarnation of the air of a fairy-story, which one inhales with delightful...
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Robert C. Williams (essay date 1997)
SOURCE: "Concerning the Western Spiritual in Russian Art: Vasily Kandinsky," in Russia Imagined: Art, Culture, and National Identity, 1840-1995, Peter Lang, 1997, pp. 45-59.
[In the following essay, Williams chronicles Kandinsky' s interest in religious mysticism and theosophy and discusses its influence on his work.]
In the early days of the Russian Revolution Bolshevism coexisted with Bohemia. Hundreds of artists and intellectuals rushed to help build a new society in which they might play a role, painting Agitprop trains, erecting monuments, composing symphonies for conductorless orchestras, reading Futurist poetry, filming the storming of the Winter Palace,...
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Further Reading
Grohmann, Will. Wassily Kandinsky: Life and Work. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1965, 428 p.
Critical biography that includes a catalog of works, color reproductions, and photographs of the artist.
Lassaigne, Jacques. Kandinsky. Translated by H. S. B. Harrison. Geneva: Editions d'Art Albert Skira, 1964, 131 p.
Richly illustrated biographical and critical study of the artist.
Weiss, Peg. Kandinsky in Munich: The Formative Jugendstil Years. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1979, 268 p.
Chronicles Kandinsky's Munich years and studies how that time affected his work....
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Bill C-11 Committee on March 7th, 2012
Evidence of meeting #9 for Bill C-11 (41st Parliament, 1st Session) in the 41st Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was copyright.
A recording is available from Parliament.
On the agenda
MPs speaking
Also speaking
- Ferne Downey National President, Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists, Recording Artists' Collecting Society
- Warren Sheffer Lawyer, Hebb & Sheffer, Recording Artists' Collecting Society
- Martha Rans Legal Director, Artists' Legal Outreach
- Michael Eisen Chief Legal Officer, Microsoft Canada Co.
- Jesse Feder Director, International Trade and Intellectual Property, Business Software Alliance
3:30 p.m.
The Chair Glenn Thibeault
Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the ninth meeting of the Legislative Committee on Bill C-11.
Today is going to be an interesting meeting. Bells are expected in a few minutes, so we'll need to have a quick interlude while we go to vote and then come back.
The clerk has briefed you all that we've changed the opening statements to five minutes. If you haven't had that opportunity I will give you a little bit of leeway, but we are trying to save time so that members can ask more questions to get the answers we are trying to look for with this committee.
We have four witnesses today. From the Recording Artists' Collecting Society, we have Ferne Downey and Warren Sheffer. From Artists' Legal Outreach, we have Martha Rans. From Microsoft Canada, we have Michael Eisen. From Business Software Alliance, we have Jesse Feder.
Thank you for being here today.
I will stop speaking and get right to opening remarks. We will start with the Recording Artists' Collecting Society.
3:30 p.m.
Ferne Downey National President, Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists, Recording Artists' Collecting Society
Thank you, Mr. Chair and committee members.
My name is Ferne Downey. I'm a professional actor, and the president of ACTRA and the Recording Artists' Collecting Society, also known as RACS. With me is Warren Sheffer, a lawyer with Hebb and Sheffer, who specializes in copyright law.
Created in 1997, RACS is a non-profit organization whose sole purpose is to distribute equitable remuneration and private copying moneys under the Copyright Act. We represent more than 4,000 Canadian recording artists and several thousand more international artists through our reciprocal agreements with collectives around the whole world.
For thousands of Canadians, making music and other creative pursuits isn't a hobby; it's a job. It's how we cover our bills, feed our families, and pay our taxes. Professional recording artists are entrepreneurs who contribute to Canada's $85 billion cultural industry.
Unlike most Canadians, professional artists don't live on one paycheque from a single employer. Rather, we rely on small cheques from many streams of revenue, which add up to allow us to pay the rent or live or invest in our new projects. Don't forget that each new recording project means creating jobs—booking studio space, or hiring an engineer, session musicians, and even a designer to create your digital album art. That's why the private copying levy has been so vital.
For nearly 15 years, our copyright laws recognized that copies have value. Millions of dollars have gone to creators to compensate them when private copies have been made of their work. Unfortunately, Bill C-11 doesn't extend the levy to the new technology being used to copy music. As a result, there will just be less money flowing to these artists, who already struggle to piece together the income to create the music we love.
Now, we've heard you. We know the government's position on this and we're not going to harp on it, but we do need you to understand that letting the levy wither away means lost revenue for these small business people. In a very real sense, the Copyright Act establishes a business model for professional artists and allows them to create a market. We know that in many cases, recording artists' greatest assets are works they have recorded in the past. They can make a living if that intellectual property is protected. Good copyright legislation must therefore do more than punish those who violate the law, it must protect the right of those who own the copyright to control and license their work.
Unfortunately, in many respects, Bill C-11 does not meet this test. There are just too many new exceptions. We at RACS support the 20 amendments put forward by the Canadian Conference of the Arts on behalf of 68 cultural organizations. Today we'd like to speak briefly to a couple of these, which are of particular interest to the recording artists we represent.
First is the user-generated content exception. One of the best things about Bill C-11 is that it finally puts the 1996 WIPO Internet treaties into Canadian law, giving performers moral rights in their oral performances and a "making available" right. However, a few pages later, moral rights are then threatened by the UGC provision that allows people to mash up creative works at whim. We understand the government's intent, but this YouTube or mash-up exception is too permissive and threatens to trample on creators' economic and moral rights. By adopting the UGC exception, you will take away the opportunity for Canadian artists and makers, such as studios and record labels, to license their products.
In other countries, collectives are entering into licence agreements with businesses like YouTube. Canadian creators need to have the same right to control and license our work. We urge you to either remove the UGC provision from Bill C-11 or amend the bill to protect creators' moral and economic rights.
Second are statutory damages. Statutory damages are an important tool in deterring copyright infringement. We believe that damages should be proportionate to the infringement, and so far in Canada they have been. Therefore, we don't see any reason to create a new distinction between commercial and non-commercial infringement. Drawing this distinction reinforces the message that it is okay for me not to pay for music or movies, as long as I'm not selling my illegal copies to anyone else.
When you combine the drastic reduction in statutory damages with the legal costs, it also sends a clear message to creators that they might as well not pursue remedies for these infringements in court.
Bill C-11 also gives illegal file-sharing sites a licence to keep enabling illegal activity by exempting them from statutory damages. Now we don't think this was intended, and we urge you to fix that technical error.
I'll turn to Warren, who will talk very briefly about a third vital area.
3:35 p.m.
The Chair Glenn Thibeault
Mr. Sheffer, we are at five minutes, so if you could give us a one-minute summary, it would be much appreciated. I'm sorry to do this to you.
Thank you.
3:35 p.m.
Warren Sheffer Lawyer, Hebb & Sheffer, Recording Artists' Collecting Society
That's fine. I'll be very quick.
The third amendment RACS is seeking has to do with bringing interpretive scope to the numerous exceptions that are proposed by the bill. We are specifically proposing that the language of the Berne three-step test be added into part III of the act as an interpretive provision.
Making such a technical amendment won't change the substance of the exceptions proposed by the bill. It also won't detract from the government's desire to have a made-in-Canada piece of legislation. What it will do is make clear that Canadian courts are to restrict their interpretation of exceptions to certain special cases that do not conflict with the normal exploitation of the work or other subject matter, and do not unreasonably prejudice the legitimate interests of the author, performer, or maker.
Many of our trading partners have this interpretive language in their own copyright legislation. It provides users and creators with greater clarity according to an internationally accepted benchmark. By including the Berne three-step test as an interpretive provision in the Copyright Act, we'll move closer to harmonizing our copyright laws with many of our trading partners', while avoiding unintended damage to creators.
To quote the preamble of the bill:
...copyright protection is enhanced when countries adopt coordinated approaches, based on internationally recognized norms....
3:35 p.m.
The Chair Glenn Thibeault
Mr. Sheffer, again, I do apologize that we have to do this. I want to try to give everyone the opportunity to present. Hopefully you can get more of that information in during the questioning.
3:35 p.m.
Lawyer, Hebb & Sheffer, Recording Artists' Collecting Society
Okay, thank you.
3:35 p.m.
The Chair Glenn Thibeault
Now we'll go to you, Ms. Rans.
March 7th, 2012 / 3:35 p.m.
Martha Rans Legal Director, Artists' Legal Outreach
Thank you.
My name is Martha Rans. I'm the legal director of the Artists' Legal Outreach. I've been a lawyer for 18 years, advising artists in all disciplines.
The ALO provides advice and information to thousands of B.C. creators every other week in the province. As a copyright educator, I lecture before hundreds of students of art and design, who are the future of the creative sector in this country.
Creativity flourishes irrespective of the law. It always has and always will. However, it does not exist in isolation from where artists work, present, speak, perform, build, and think. It requires some level of support. For many artists, copyright has supplanted arts funding as the mechanism through which we in society recognize and implicitly value their creativity.
I'm not here to talk about products and innovation, information and data, or a religion, for that matter. I'm not a legislative expert, an academic, or part of an industry. I'm here to share with you some of the experiences I've had with artists—whether they're in Temiskaming or Vancouver—around copyright.
Bill C-11 as it stands is too complicated for most digital producers to be able to interpret, and the fear of litigation harms individual artists and the cultural sectors they too comprise. This is particularly the case where we have limited access to legal advice, education, and information. This doesn't mean that we need more lawyers. It means that we need a framework built on solid principles and clear policy that are well understood by the public and creator alike, and that will enable artists to negotiate for themselves.
Bill C-11 as currently drafted fails to provide a copyright framework that is clear, predictable, or fair. The user-generated content provision is an example of this.
Here, you're proposing to legislate in an area where I would suggest it's quite unnecessary. Our sons and daughters will continue to create and upload videos of themselves dancing to Justin Bieber, whether we like it or not and whether or not there's a law. That has always been the case.
As a result in part of YouTube's algorithms intended to automate to identify potential third-party content, other sites have emerged without those algorithms—Vimeo, Blip, and others—which suggests to me that an exception is not required to enable any of us to find outlets for our self-made creations, and we don't need a law to do that.
Josh Hite, a Vancouver media artist, made a video called Chug Chug Chug, based on clips he found on YouTube. The exception as drafted makes it no easier for him to show it, even at a festival. Even a non-profit festival in Brazil has turned him down.
We are, however, seeing best practices emerge that respect original creators and do not penalize users. It seems to me to be worthwhile to avoid unnecessary legislative intervention that could slow the process. Getty Images recently announced a mishmash competition. It seems to me that copyright holders like Getty have adapted to the new digital landscape.
A new copyright regime that enables artists to create transformative works is what we need, one that respects how art is actually made. At the Vancouver Art Gallery right now, Sonny Assu and Jackson 2bears have work in their show that arguably infringes copyright, and Bill C-11 does absolutely nothing to change that fact.
To the extent that amending fair dealing could enable an acceptance of transformative use, then perhaps we could make use of those amendments. I'm not convinced, however, in light of the fact that this will undoubtedly foretell a significant amount of litigation.
Adding education to fair dealing will not solve the funding crisis that educational institutions and other publicly funded institutions such as libraries, museums, and galleries have. The result of the opting out of the AC tariff by various post-secondary institutions in 2011 is evidence of that. I doubt very much that adding education to fair dealing—though I personally support doing so on philosophical grounds—will change that. There's a continuing widespread misperception about the impact of that change.
In the absence of statutory licence provisions that mandate specific uses that will enable our copyright collectives and will address digital reproduction rights to artists, I don't see this taking us further forward. There are now communities of folks seeking to make it possible for widespread sharing of resources across many platforms in legislative environments—
3:40 p.m.
The Chair Glenn Thibeault
Unfortunately, I have to interrupt you. You still are under time, but we have bells. That's what the flashing means. The flashing lights mean that many of the MPs here—
3:40 p.m.
Legal Director, Artists' Legal Outreach
You mean it isn't that you agree with me...?
3:40 p.m.
Oh, oh!
3:40 p.m.
The Chair Glenn Thibeault
Fantastic, all in favour?
Unfortunately, we'll now have to suspend to go to vote. I am expecting that we will continue this meeting after the votes. It looks like the next round of voting will be some time between 5:30 and 6:00 when there will be bells. I would expect everyone to come back, and we will do as much as we can in terms of getting the presentations and questioning in until the next round of bells.
Until then, we are suspended.
5:20 p.m.
The Chair Glenn Thibeault
Again, our apologies for the delay with the votes. I'd like to welcome back the members and the witnesses.
We will move right to the presentations because possibly there are going to be more bells coming.
I'm going to start with Microsoft, for 10 minutes.
You will be able to start afterwards.
5:20 p.m.
Michael Eisen Chief Legal Officer, Microsoft Canada Co.
Thank you.
Good evening.
In my role as Microsoft Canada's chief legal officer, I'm committed to working with government and other interested parties to help fashion the best legal and policy frameworks possible to build a productive, healthy, and safe Canada.
It goes without saying that copyright reform in Canada has been long in the making. Bill C-11 is the fourth attempt to amend the Copyright Act since 2005.
It also goes without saying that copyright law reform is critical to bringing Canada's laws into the 21st century. In addition to implementing the rights and protections of the World Intellectual Property Organization Internet treaties, we need a new framework that allows businesses to compete and Canadians to realize their potential.
Bill C-11 provides this framework. In Microsoft's view, it will provide appropriate protections to artists, creators, and other innovators. It will facilitate the emergence of new products, services, and distribution models, and it will promote the interests of educators and consumers. In short, the bill will modernize Canadian copyright law in a fair manner that deters those who would disregard the rights of creators, while striking a careful balance with the interests of users.
As the copyright reform process has demonstrated, balancing the rights of creators with the interests of users is a difficult exercise. I suspect that almost all stakeholders, including Microsoft, could identify elements of Bill C-11 that they do not like.
However, the time has come to move forward. As a result, in the interests of seeing copyright reform in Canada come to fruition, I will limit my detailed comments to the TPM provisions and a small number of technical fixes necessary, I believe, to achieve the legislative intent behind the bill.
Microsoft is of the view that Bill C-11's approach to technical protection measures—that is, a general rule against circumvention of access controls, subject to exceptions—is appropriate.
To begin with, it is most important to recognize that Bill C-11 does not prohibit circumvention of copy controls. Once a consumer lawfully obtains a copy, subject to any limitations imposed by contract, the consumer is entitled to do anything that is permitted by the fair dealing provisions or another exception.
Rather, the prohibition on access controls ensures that people who want to take advantage of a fair dealing exception lawfully acquire, through purchase or licence, a copy of the work. This ensures some measure of compensation for creators in much the same way the fair dealing provisions operate today in respect of non-digital works.
Second, the multiple exceptions to the general rule against circumvention of access controls reflect a careful balancing between the rights of creators and the interests of users. Trying to accommodate all potential legitimate uses in the legislation would create large loopholes for pirates and other bad actors to avoid liability. The same concern about loopholes justifies creating a relatively strict ban on devices. To allow trafficking in circumvention devices would make it too easy for bad actors to create and sell devices that are used for illegitimate purposes.
Third, if a legitimate concern about TPM overreach arises at some time in the future, the broad regulation-making authority found in Bill C-11 will enable the government to create new exceptions to the general rules against circumvention of access controls and use of circumvention devices.
The exception process provides government with flexibility to address, among other things, the use of TPMs to improperly restrict competition in the aftermarket sector, or to adversely affect fair dealings for news reporting, commentary, parody, teaching, or research.
The government also retains the power by regulation to require owners of copyright-protected work to make their work accessible to people who are entitled to the benefit of an exception. In short, the TPM provisions ensure that there will be an appropriate balance between the needs of creators and users, both now and in the future, if unintended consequences are identified or as new technologies emerge.
Moving now to technical fixes, Microsoft's view is that Bill C-11 requires limited revisions. In particular, the wording of the new "exceptions to infringement" provisions should be revised to avoid what we expect are potential unintended consequences. Most significantly, the exceptions are not bound by a requirement that the dealing with the work be fair.
The exceptions of most concern to Microsoft are interoperability of computer programs, proposed section 30.61; encryption research, proposed section 30.62; and security, proposed section 30.63. In each case, a simple technical fix is available.
Specifically, the exceptions could be made subject to a requirement that the applicable activity be fair. The factors to be used to assess what is fair would be the same factors identified by the Supreme Court of Canada in the CCH decision in connection with fair dealing: the purpose of the dealing, the character of the dealing, the amount of the dealing, alternatives to the dealing, the nature of the work, and the effect of the dealing on the work.
Finally, I would like to conclude by thanking the committee for providing Microsoft with an opportunity to make these remarks.
I look forward to any questions, if we have that opportunity.
5:25 p.m.
The Chair Glenn Thibeault
Thank you, sir.
Now we go to Mr. Feder. The floor is yours for 10 minutes.


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In a statement today, the United Nations Security Council condemned the widespread violations of human rights and the use of force against civilians by the Syrian authorities. Ambassador Susan E. Rice, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, said, "This is an important and strong statement. It was long overdue."
Ambassador Rice continued, "...I think the Assad regime has been counting on the fact that the Security Council would be unable to speak. And that they would not be condemned. And that they would have protectors and defenders that would make it impossible for that condemnation to emerge. And surely they must be quite surprised and disappointed by the outcome.
"And hopefully, the people of Syria will get the sense that there are many in the international community, including in the Security Council, who are deeply concerned, profoundly troubled by the violence, who see their efforts and their peaceful protest as just. And the government will hopefully also be chastened by the strength and the unity of the condemnation. And obviously our over-arching goal, first and foremost, is for the violence to stop and the people of Syria to have the opportunity to chart their own course and have a democratic future."
You can read Ambassador Rice's full remarks on the statement here.
W.W. writes:
According to what is delivered from media to the mass:
mass opinion believe In Economic Interest
Libya//Syria : Two different scenarios
As any security official in any country may reach in term of knowledge.
Yes to Rasmussen position
Libya : Quaddafi according to his past and statement and his family declaration was dangerous for European communinity indipendently for economic interest in Libya.
Syria : Assad is dangerous for his own population but not for Europeans
There is the paradoxal chance tha terrorist are strategically fighting with words or There is Terroristic armed infiltration among peacefull Syrian population.
In anycase International community must stop Violence with the target of getting Terroristic groups wheather they play with Assad or with Unarmed protester, Terroristic group in Syria independently from their flag may put in danger European and American society in the region
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"If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.†MARTIN LUTHER KING
Eric in New Mexico writes:
I'm not sure what purpose would be served at this point sending Amb. Ford back, since it would be almost impossible to travel about talking to opposition members while tanks are in the streets. And it's probably time to bring the rest of staff back home as well.
Send the Syrian diplomats packing from the US as well.
Call this gut instinct, but if I were in President Obama's shoes right about now, I'd be seriously tempted to take that lowest common denominator unanimity of that presidential statement issued by the UNSC and hold a press conference and do something really gutsy...rip it in little pieces in front of cameras saying that if this is the best the UNSC can do, then it represents a "strong" statement of their inability to hold themselves accountable for what happens next...knowing what we are witness to now is nothing less than a repeat of the father's slaughter in Hama back in the 80's, Assad being just a chip off the old block.
To give Assad 24 hours, not 48 as Mr. Bush gave Saddam, to decomission every tank (by explosives) and barracks every member of his armed forces, and "get out of the way" because he's in the other hand waving the executive order signed to wage war upon him with notice of an immediate emergency Congressional vote to authorize such action as soon as that can be done.
Then make Assad homeless 15 minutes later just to let every nation on this planet understand what we consider acceptable and what's not.
And tell everybody listening that if this is the way the UNSC is going to meet its responsibilities then America will respond to the acts of terrorist dictators unilaterally every time, and that we could care less what folks think about it, they have only themselves to blame for not measuring up to the task.
That should set parameters for being in solidarity with the Syrian people, if one is trully appalled and willing to condemn.
While he's at it he might as well tell folks that he has no intention of ever again putting caveats on the word "all" in regards to "all neccessary measures" as folks did in regards to Lybia, and that none exist at this point in time.
Someone has to honor their commitments to protect populations whether the UNSC does or not...and that would be the legal basis for doing whatever needs to be done to assure that folks can live in peace eventually.
Nothing about what I've just said would be inconsistant with "nations must choose peace" and "words must mean something", for the President would simply be proving good on his words.
That's what really matters to the American people, beyond all other legitimate reasons to support him if he should take such actions.
He's asked folks to step up to the plate and folks think fouling out is ok apparently like that's going to drive in runs and win the game for the people...not even...and like always it seems we be batting clean-up in extra innings.
Oh yeah, tell folks if they arn't with us on this, that we'll gladly bill them what it costs us for their political cowardice to do it alone.
That should satisfy Congress on the question of how to pay for it.
Samuelle in the U.S.A. writes:
Yeah; it's just like your neighbors next door are killing each other and you naturally want to help the oppressed member (s) of the family. Right? In the end, you are suppose
to heal their wounds and yours too. But, are we truly equipped to raise the American flag again on foreign soil, knowing that we owe so much to even survive financially as a nation. I do not see the Arab world reacting to Syria's unrest. Really; or did I miss something?
Samen in the U.A.E. writes:
@Eric in New Mexico
you talked sense it's easy to condemning this slaughter by UNSC as former verdict for Iran, has the abundant says no practicable act; Syria regime swanking against world community because its encourager Iran, this pandemonium inspiring Assad pursue protesters, you know that Iran experienced of this rises, just hang up a lot of discontented in street or shoot over crowds it's effect if media be there so next day nobody dare go to streets, then regime able to seal and plumb their shops in market or invalidate permits.
Sometimes I doubting for this consensus if Tehran regime passed hushmoney; instance,Iran has a seat in U.N and has nodding acquaintance with other members next of any agenda.
Frequently quoth who solving the plural worries of the world is in pledging annihilate of Islamic Republic of Iran.


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Last week I vacationed in Chicago, a great city of culture, entertainment, and possessing a wonderful Midwest feeling. Chicago is not unlike Rochester in some ways. There is much to do and experience if you look in the right places and read community publications (in Chicago The Reader was great, and in Rochester of course you have the D & C and City as standbys).
Still, there are some things in Chicago that I wish we could have more of in Rochester. One of them is BYOB. In Rochester, when someone says "BYOB" they are usually referring to a party where you're expected to bring your own libations. In Chicago, I would venture to say three out of every five restaurants passed had the "BYOB" sign on their windows, meaning that you bring your own beer or wine to enjoy with your meal. Why do I think this is so fantastic? For one thing, those on a budget (YPs anyone?) can save money by not buying alcohol that is marked up out of necessity by restaurants. For another, it allows more freedom in choosing drinks to go with your meal based on individual tastes. Not one of the restaurants I went to charged a corkage fee (a charge for opening outside wine in a restaurant) and the servers automatically provided you with glasses, ice buckets, and what have you.
I also wish that I could have stuffed the restaurant El Nandu in my suitcase with me. El Nandu serves authentic Argentinian cuisine, something that I've yet to find in Rochester. Because Argentina has many ranches and is a large exporter of cattle, many of their dishes are delicious meats. I tried the molleja which was tender and delectable. I recommend trying it before translating it (spoiler they're
sweetbreads!). For my main entree I enjoyed the milanesa, a perfect cut of steak pounded until it's thin then sauteed and breaded. With a glass of Argentinian malbec the meal is heaven!
The specialty cocktail scene is huge in Chicago. While craft beer is on the forefront of most Rochesterian's minds, Aviations and Death in the Afternoons are knocking on your back door. These specialty cocktails are made by mixologists, those who evolve the field of bartending and create (or rediscover) drinks. Think Hemmingway and the rest of the ex-pat crowd at Montparnasse Café in Paris, downing prohibition-style cocktails. Recently, the Cheshire Bar opened above Solera Wine Lounge on South Avenue serving these specialty cocktails in a prohibition-style setting, offering a taste of this scene to Rochester.


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This week's Poly Weekly #223: Communicating while angry & realism in relationships.
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- Anal sex in accordance with God's will
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- Ann Arbor Poly Network: munch the second Friday, 7:30 p.m., at Pizza House; discussion group third Thursday at WRAP (319 Braun Ct.)
Topic: Communicating while angry
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Topic: Realism in Relationships
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Beekman, Erickson, Guetter and Lee join Reiss on Independent All-Area first team
With a bevy of talented players led by dedicated coaches and fueled by high expectations, championship pedigree showed through for multiple Marshall-area girls' basketball teams during the 2012-13 season.
Qualifying for the Class A state tournament the previous two years but being ousted in the first round both times, the Minneota Vikings refused to be denied on their third straight trip to Minneapolis. With a win over top-ranked Mountain Iron-Buhl in the quarterfinals at Williams Arena, Minneota carried the momentum through the next two rounds and hoisted the school's first-ever state championship trophy in basketball under the bright lights at Target Center in Minneapolis.
Minneota, which finished the season with a 30-2 record, was also one of three area teams that won conference championships this year. The Vikings rolled to a perfect Camden Conference record, beating a tough Dawson-Boyd squad three times to claim the crown.
Marshall was ranked among the Top 10 teams in Class AAA for much of the season before seeing an 11-game winning streak snapped in the Section 2AAA semifinals against Mankato East. The Tigers, however, completed a second straight perfect season in the Southwest Conference and finished the year with a 24-4 mark.
Wabasso joined Minneota and Marshall as repeat conference champions and strung together an 18-game winning streak on its way to a 26-3 record. The Rabbits finished 15-1 in the Tomahawk Conference for the second year in a row to win the conference title outright.
Whether members of a conference championship team or not, there were many standout performers on the court over the winter.
A member of the All-Area first team last year as a freshman, Minneota forward Taylor Reiss reaffirmed her place among the state's elite players while leading the Vikings to a state tournament title and has earned the honor of Independent Player of the Year for the first time in her career.
Reiss led the area in scoring at 22.1 points per game and was among the leaders in rebounding (8.8 per game) and steals (88). Her length and athleticism allowed her to dominate the boards, especially on the offensive end, and frustrate opposing players on defense.
– One of the area's most tenacious defenders, Marshall forward Kenzie Beekman returns to the All-Area first team after another stellar season. The 5-foot-11 junior led the Tigers in scoring at 13.9 points per game while shooting over 50 percent from the field. She was also one of the best in the area at getting to the foul line, where she made 68.4 percent of her 114 attempts.
Beekman's talents in other facets of the game were just as crucial to her team's success. She averaged a team-best 8.0 rebounds per game, with 104 of her 216 rebounds coming on the offensive end. Beekman also used her length and quickness to throw a wrench in opposing teams' offensive plans. The All-Southwest Conference honoree led the Tigers with 93 steals and 16 blocks. Marshall also keeps track of how many deflections its players have. Beekman finished with 247. The next-highest total on the team was 96.
– Stat sheet stuffer Paige Erickson capped off a strong career at Westbrook-Walnut Grove with her first appearance on the All-Area team. The 5-8 senior forward was one of two players in the area to finish the season averaging a double-double. She was second in the area in both scoring (19.5) and rebounding (10.6).
One of just two seniors on a roster dominated by freshmen and sophomores, Erickson did it all for the Chargers while helping them finish with an 8-8 record in the Red Rock Conference (11-13 overall). Along with her scoring and rebounding, she finished among the area leaders in assists (67), steals (79) and blocks (31). The All-Red Rock Conference forward was also the area's best free throw shooter, hitting 81.8 percent of her 148 attempts.
– With a 26-3 overall record, the Wabasso Rabbits proved to be the top team in the Section 3A-South for the 2012-13 season and the continued improvement of forward Chelsey Guetter was a big reason why. Like Erickson, the 6-foot junior forward also averaged a double-double. Guetter led the Rabbits in scoring at 15.6 points per game, the third-best total in the area, and also led the area with 11.2 rebounds per game. She managed to step up her play even more in the postseason, where she averaged 20.3 points and 13.5 rebounds per game.
An All-Tomahawk Conference selection, Guetter finished third in the area in blocked shots with 35. She also was among the area's leaders in steals with 51. On offense, she was able to bang bodies down low to score under the basket or step behind the arc and knock down 3-pointers. She hit her first three 3-point attempts on her way to a game-high 26 points in a 76-65 win over Southwest Minnesota Christian in the sub-section championship.
– Joining Reiss as another Camden Conference sophomore sensation, Dawson-Boyd point guard Justine Lee flirted with posting triple-doubles on multiple occasions this season while helping lead the Blackjacks to a 23-4 overall record. Lee was both Dawson-Boyd's top scorer and best facilitator. She finished tied for fourth in the area at 14.6 points per game and led the area with 187 assists, which was 64 more than the next-highest total.
With 39 made 3-pointers, Lee was a threat to drill a shot from the outside but was also adept at getting to the rim and scoring in the paint. Not just a one-way player, Lee also proved herself to be one of the Camden Conference's best defenders. She finished with an area-best 144 steals, and at 5-9, was able to block 16 shots.
– Wabasso's floor general the past two seasons, guard Kimberly Frank closed out her career with her fourth straight All-Tomahawk Conference selection while leading the Rabbits to one of their best seasons in school history. Frank averaged 14.6 points per game and finished fourth in the area in total assists with 110.
On a team that likes to pressure its opponents on defense, Frank used her quickness and athleticism to come up with 3.8 steals per game, and her 126 total steals ranked her second in the area. Frank also averaged 4.0 rebounds per game.
– A young guard on a young team, Tracy-Milroy-Balaton's Cassie Hook took on more of a leadership role during her sophomore season and led the Panthers to a 12-13 overall record, including a 7-7 mark in Camden Conference play. Hook was seventh in the area in scoring at 13.8 points per game.
An All-Camden Conference selection, Hook finished the year with 60 assists and 60 steals. She hit 36.9 percent of her shots from 3-point range, ranking third in the area with 45 3-pointers.
– Complementing Justine Lee in the post, Dawson-Boyd senior forward Mari Lee also played an integral role in leading the Blackjacks to a second-place finish in the Camden Conference. Mari Lee averaged 13.4 points per game while shooting 49 percent from the field. Her shots didn't all come from under the basket, either, as she was comfortable shooting mid-range jumpers or even stepping behind the 3-point line, where she hit 43 percent of her shots.
Lee was much more than a scorer. She also averaged 5.2 rebounds per game and dished out 52 assists. On defense, the All-Camden Conference performer posted 61 steals and 19 blocked shots.
– Marshall guard Kelsey Saugstad was one of the best shooters in the area her senior season, especially from long distance. The senior finished second in the area in total 3-pointers made with 53 and shot at a 42.4 percent clip from distance. She provided consistent offense for the Tigers during their Southwest Conference title run, scoring 12.4 points per game.
Saugstad developed into a well-rounded player during her career and contributed in multiple categories this season. She averaged 4.4 rebounds per game and led the Tigers with 83 assists. Saugstad was also a strong defender, recording 66 steals and 89 deflections.
– The Minneota Vikings needed some young players to step up this season to replace a pair of vetarans in the backcourt, and sophomore Emily Stienessen was clearly up to the challenge. The 5-7 guard provided the Vikings with an outside shooting threat that prevented opponents from packing all their defenders in the paint to stop Reiss. She shot 41 percent from long range, hitting an area-best 58 3-pointers.
Stienessen averaged 12.5 points per game and also had 70 assists, 79 steals and a team-high 23 blocks. She earned All-Tournament team honors for her efforts during the Vikings' Class A title run.


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Posted on 02/07/2013 8:21:13 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
Florida's Lake County School Board might ban all extracurricular clubs as a way to avoid having to approve the formation of a Gay-Straight Alliance. Yes, students may have to say bye-bye to their FCA, 4H, and Drama Club membership cards all because some school board members are stuck in the past.
Last year, 14-year-old Bayli Silberstein tried to start a Gay-Straight Alliance at Carver Middle School in Leesburg. Silberstein told WFTV that she was sick of her group of friends being bullied for their sexual orientation, and wanted to form the group to address the problem. But her request had been denied each and every time. So, Bayli's mother contacted the ACLU, and the group sent a letter to the school board reminding them that they've won several expensive lawsuits in the past against schools that refused to let similar groups form.
So how did the Lake County School Board react? They're thinking about just banning all clubs. From the Orlando Sentinel:
School Board members Bill Mathias, Debbie Stivender and Chairwoman Kyleen Fischer spoke in favor of a rule that would ban extra-curricular clubs in secondary schools while fellow board members Tod Howard and Rosanne Brandeburg favored banning extra-curricular clubs only in middle schools.
Fischer said the district should focus on education and that "social engineering" is not the job of the School Board. "It is not our job to socially mentor students, but to educate them," she said.
Basically, in order to comply with the federal Equal Access Act, the board is considering just cutting off everyone's access to forming groups.
they should just end publik skoolz
Good. Drop all extra clubs. Let the fags complain.
Concentrate on education, that's what people pay taxes for.
Better to drop them all than to subsidise perversion.
Let the sickies meet at their local bath house.
I am sure the other groups can meet at someones home or the American legion Hall or at their local Church.
Using the "Punish the innocent" strategy.
Good. Drop all extra clubs. Let the fags complain.
Drop all clubs and let the normal kids and ther parents retaliate against the queers for what they did.
Outstanding strategy. I am amazed at the stipends the teachers receive for being the advisors to the different clubs in my school districts.
Sad that HomoFascism may kill all clubs at school district near where I live.
Wonder if the HateCLU is OK with Beastilaity Clubs or Pedophile Clubs....Bob Menendez might like the latter
I thought we paid for the nice football stadiums.
This is excellent.
When I went to HS I knew of several openly gay/lesbian students. Even in a school that had a large portion of conservative leaning student, bullying was almost non existent. The ones that did could be counted on my hands. It wouldn't surprise me if it is a similar situation with a few bullies and the media makes it sound like the poor student has several hundred bullies.
So, the school board is "....stuck in the past...." eh?
Perhaps it would be more appropriate to look into certain other things are are "stuck into things" that they were not designed to be stuck into.
MSM - when you absolutely, positively are so without ability that you cannot even go into politics.
No. Kids understand naturally, instinctively, that there is just something sick about a man pushing a penis into another man's anus full of sh**. It's one of those things nobody needs to teach, and it is why homos instinctively feel ashamed of what they are and what they do, and why they suffer the tears of a clown as they march with fake smiles in fake "pride" parades. All the liberal propaganda in the world can't change human nature and human instinct.
Kudos to this school board for doing the right thing and not caving to the militant homosexual lobby. (By the way, how pathetic is it when people deserve congratulations for simply doing the right thing? But, here we are in Ubama's Amerika.)
Bet they won't touch any sports programs.
I kinda like this.....Instead of worrying about after school stuff, let teachers concentrate on TEACHING. If this type of club doesn't mesh with the values of the community, why should we have the tyranny of the minority?
Maybe the sodomites ought to be the ones who temper THEIR demands.
Extra curricular activities are luxuries. They are not however necessary for an excellent education. HIgh academic standards in the four core subjects are.
When the LGBT agenda finds its ways into our schools the innocents are punished. The kind of societal rot they seek to legitimize is far more dangerous to our culture than not having a 4h club.
Stick to reading, writing and arithmetic and starve the ACLU of work and publicity.
This school district is showing great courage in standing for education instead of indoctrination.
It is incredible that in the United States today a 14 year old spiritually ill child is given such power of destruction. The adults are prematurely caving in to her "If I don't get my way then nobody can play" attitude. I admire the board for taking a stand but why give in this early? Tell the queer club to pound sand and let the ACLU drag it to court. Then if the courts cave to immorality go ahead and cancel the other clubs. There is no need to punish the children in legitimate clubs before the battle has begun.
some school board members are stuck in the past"
...yep. They are soooo uncool.
We had well over 2000 students in my high school. One of the kids down the street bullied one of the special ed kids. I can remember to this day Mr. Arnold the SPED teacher grabbing the bully and literally bouncing him off the wall.
Just had to do it once and the message was sent very clearly.
Good for them....do it....let them have the clubs outside the school arena...period.
We had well over 2000 students in my high school. One of the kids down the street bullied one of the special ed kids. I can remember to this day Mr. Arnold the SPED teacher grabbing the bully and literally bouncing him off the wall.
Just had to do it once and the message was sent very clearly.
Apparently the gays can't see that they're bullying "normal" kids to get their way.
Yep. Let people see who these homosexuals really are. It's not tolerance they're after.
They never should have been let out of the asylums in the 1980's. It was one of the biggest mistakes this country has ever made.
It's way past time to change on our minds on that "tolerance" thing. In fact, it's time we start to rethink that asylum thing.
Just by the nature of a "gay" club indicates that advocation of sexuality, ergo underage kids are being encouraged toward sexual promiscuity. Is that not a indictable. I am not a lawyer; I just play one on TV.
I can think of no organization that has caused such irreparable damage to the culture as the ACLU freaks. They're legal terrorists. When CWII comes, I predict that most of these vipers will end up dangling from lampposts.
Schools (and prisons) should do their best to ensure that no violence or bullying against those in their care. The message should not be "don't bully gays" but "don't bully". As for sexuality in schools, the schools should discourage all sexual activity. It will still occur, but sex shouldn't be normalized as a desirable choice at that age.
" she was sick of her group of friends being bullied for their sexual orientation, and wanted to form the group to address the problem."
Yeah, when you act like a degenerate disgusting pervert overtly offending normal people, there comes a point when they are not going to take it any more. The solution: simply shut your stupid mouth and stop doing vile and perverted acts.
The only bullying going on here is by the perverts against the school.
A small minority of queers along with the ACLU is pushing their agenda in the face of normalcy.
And the result will be to shut down ALL the extracurricular groups.
Children sometimes behave badly, including participating in mild bullying. It should be discouraged, but kids generally learn to deal with most of it. Just part of growing up.
As to the "gay" part of this problem, I don't think adolescents should be categorized as "gay" at this stage of their sexual development. We seem to be pushing kids at an age when they are confused about practically everything.
See also: gun control, Obamacare, East Germany style 'safety' checkpoints etc.
Years ago a group of Conservative students wanted to form a Rush Limbaugh club on a college campus. The ACLU had top drag the school into court to get the students permission to do so. It must have killed them to do so.
I disagree. My experience was that just about everyone got bullied at least a little just about every year. Those who handled it well were left alone after the first try, while those who reward the bully with a nice reward or even an entertaining show were picked on mercilessly. I disapprove of the bullying whether it is over gay, fat, glasses, or any other excuse.
I do agree that the perverts are major bullies in this case. The lesson from all bullying is never to give a bully what he/she/it (for the GLBTQ undecideds) wants. We have to make sure that the perverts do not get sympathy and positive attention, that they do get shunned by decent people, and that they never again want to provoke a fight over special treatment.
Great, now that there is extra time that used to be allocated
to the Clubs, how about a mandatory homework session for the kids?????
Good point.
I think a lot of the "bullying" is when a perv hits on someone and gets a violent reaction. A boy grabs another boys behind or package and he gonna get the NY city beat down.
Bullying is an excuse used by homo crowd so that they can get into the school and spread their pervisions.
So now her classmates know that it's Bayli's fault that all the activities were cancelled. I suspect little Bayli and her mom will be in for an interesting school year.
And there's major constitutonal problems with the federal Equal Access Act. Not only have the states never delegated to Congress the specific power to regulate public schools, but Justice John Marshall had officially taken the Founding States' division of federal and state powers a major step forward by officially clarifying the following. Justice Marshall had clarified in general that Congress is prohibited from laying taxes in the name of state power issues, issues wihch Congress cannot justify under the Constitution's Section 8 of Article I, public schooling being an example.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." --Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
In other words, corrupt, gay agenda-pushing Congress is wrongly threating the loss of federal funds concerning an issue which Congress has no constitutional authority to lay taxes for in the first place.
Finally, I find it ironic that the EAA was lobbied for by religious groups who evidently didn't know about Congress's limited powers to lay taxes.
Equal Access Act
Correct. Not all bullying involves picking on weak nerdy kids.
Effective bullying can be used as a deterrent to teach little faggots to stop their destructive behavior before they grow up to be sick old perverts.
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We (Cancer Care of Marquette County board) would like to personally thank the student athletes and Northern Michigan University for the Pink Wave event that took place Feb. 9 at the Berry Events Center.
Hosted by the Northern Michigan University Intercollegiate Athletic and Recreation Department, the Pink Wave event raised funds for CCMC.
During the Pink Wave event, special pink jerseys were worn by NMU athletes and fans were encouraged to wear pink as well, creating a wave of pink. Pink Wave apparel was available for purchase at all three games. In addition, the NMU Bookstore is also selling the pink apparel.
All net proceeds are being donated to CCMC, an all volunteer local organization providing financial and referral assistance to Marquette County residents who are receiving treatment for cancer.
The day began with men's basketball at 11 a.m. followed by the women's basketball at 1 p.m. Hockey wrapped up the day at 7:35 p.m. All three games were against Ferris State University.
Some of the NMU student athletes came up with the idea of the Pink Wave and worked with NMU faculty and staff to make the event a success. Their goal is to make this an annual event.
I encourage all county residents to attend and support this worthy cause. Many Marquette County residents and their families will benefit from their generosity.
If you or someone you know has questions about CCMC, or need the assistance it provides please call 906-486-8641, visit our website www.CancerCareMQTcounty.com or find us Facebook.
Many thanks to all who made this event a success.
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Agree with jta1975 on his latest piece: http://bit.ly/jwYmL8
Great to see a guy immerse himself in the city he plays for and even greater that it seems to be his genuine personality to do so as opposed to a shove from an agent or seeing it as an obligation.
Kid gets it so far. And when you're putting a ton of goodwill in the bank people might also be willing to overlook a misstep borne out of youth.
A lot of athletes would be wise to watch how Haden goes about things.
Good article Jason.


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Thailand sports and the international badminton fraternity are mourning the death of former top player, Pramote Teerawiwatana.
The veteran shuttler, who enjoyed one of the longest careers in badminton before retiring at age 37 in 2004, died last Thursday in Bangkok after battling lung cancer. He was 45 years old.
In their prime, he and long-time partner Tesana Panvisvas won the SEA Games gold medal in Brunei 2000 and two Asian Games silver medals, in Bangkok (1998) and Busan (2002). Teerawiwatana also won the national title 11 times and represented Thailand in Men's Doubles at four Olympic Games – Barcelona (1992); Atlanta (1996); Sydney (2000) and Athens (2004).
The former world No. 2 doubles specialist (pictured left in photo with former partner, Sakrapee Thongsari) was one of the best badminton exponents his country ever produced and was coaching at the Thailand Badminton Association before illness struck.
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Before the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly
Dead Sea, Jordan
11 October 2008
(Delivered by Prime Minister Nader Dahabi)
Honourable Deputies,
Thank you for your kind welcome. It is my honour to address this distinguished assembly today and to welcome you to Jordan on behalf of His Majesty King Abdullah.
President Pottering and Speaker Majali, I extend my deepest gratitude to both of you and the members of the Assembly's Bureau, for your efforts in the course of convening this important gathering of parliamentarians from both sides of the Mediterranean.
Your Excellencies,
Honourable Deputies,
Last December, His Majesty King Abdullah addressed the European Parliament in Strasbourg. There, he outlined a vision of the future of the Middle East and its relationship with Europe.
"Today," he said, "we can think of a larger neighbourhood, one that stretches from north of the Baltic Sea to south of the Mediterranean, one that is shared by Europe and the Middle East. It is the basis of the Euro-Med Partnership, our region-to-region platform for cooperation and development. It is a relationship with great shared interests and unlimited potential. And it is up to us to develop our partnership to its fullest."
This was the vision shared by many in Europe, too. And in July, the countries of Europe and the Mediterranean took a bold step towards the development of this partnership. The launch of the Union for the Mediterranean earlier this year, and the opportunity it represents to the people of two continents, is of historic importance. On behalf of His Majesty King Abdullah and the people of Jordan, I thank you, the members of the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly, for the energetic support you have lent to initiating a new phase in Euro-Med relations. Jordan looks forward to working in partnership with the European Union institutions in translating this valuable initiative into concrete results for our people.
My friends,
The Mediterranean region today is in real need of a common effort to confront challenges to development, especially in the countries of the Middle East and North Africa. These challenges occur in the vital areas of water, infrastructure and energy. Today, our requirement for energy at levels that would sustain our rapid development is severely challenged. The region's demand for water is also rising rapidly in tandem with a growing population and increasingly dangerous water scarcity. Our participation in the global economy will remain limited until we have a transport and communications infrastructure that supports trade relations across the region. The Union for the Med has established a pragmatic framework. Through it we can - together - begin to meet these challenges.
But we cannot lose sight of one key fact: the most critical challenge to the region's development is conflict. And our efforts as partners will be for naught unless Middle East peace remains our top priority.
In our region, we simply cannot imagine common solutions to our common water problems in the absence of peace. But far too many people can imagine a day when water becomes another source of conflict. We cannot realize comprehensive regional economic integration when conflict practically excludes some partners from participation. We cannot develop a regional free trade area when conflict blocks the development of the necessary infrastructure. But, unless we do achieve these things, we can predict economic stagnation… and its fallout: unemployment, poverty, brain-drain, declining levels of education and health standards; frustration, hopelessness, anger.
If conflict and under-development are not to become mutually reinforcing, we must address conflict, beginning with the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, the region's core conflict.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Next month, we will mark a year since Palestinian and Israeli leaders met in Annapolis, Maryland, with the support of the European Union and nations from both our regions. There, the parties pledged all-out negotiations towards a peace treaty in 2008 and both sides - Palestinians and Israelis - committed themselves to the two-state solution as the only solution capable of securing the justice and security they both seek. And for the first time in years, we began to see modest movement toward a permanent and just settlement to this conflict.
This progress reflects the commitment of many friends of peace, including leaders in Europe and the Arab states who have urged the parties on. And it speaks, once again, to the importance of international support, at every level, for the peace process: without it, the parties just can't bridge the gaps. International engagement lends confidence and credibility to the process, facilitating difficult decision-making. It brings fresh perspectives on conflict resolution to those bogged down in day-to-day conflict management. And it is now more critical than ever before. That is because the most difficult negotiations are still before Palestinian and Israeli leaders, while public confidence in the peace process is at an all-time low.
The fact is, success at the negotiating table has not been matched by on-the-ground improvements in the lives of those directly affected by conflict, especially for Palestinians. Israeli settlement building continues on Palestinian land. Palestinian communities are dissected by walls and roadblocks, choking off economic activity and social and familial ties. Human suffering, wrought by violence and siege, persists as a daily reality for millions of people, Palestinian and Israeli.
An infusion of hope is needed. And this assembly has an important role to play in ensuring that it is delivered. First, by helping keep international political leaders focused on this critical issue, at a time when other global crises also demand attention. Second, by encouraging the mobilization of resources needed to offset humanitarian crisis. And third, by advocating and supporting partnerships - to boost economic opportunity, to deliver effective public services and reliable infrastructure, to expand access to education and health care. Improving basic conditions of life will not only help create confidence in the political process; it will also help create the conditions that will sustain peace over the long-term.
Esteemed Deputies,
In this room are those, from both the Middle East and Europe, who have vivid memories of conflict, part of a shared history. Among our children, there is no shared historical narrative: the horror of war is alien to the young Europeans coming of age today; for the young people of the Middle East, violence remains a daily fact of life.
But what we know is that people throughout the Middle East and Europe hope for peace, for Arabs and Israelis. Arabs and Israelis, like Europeans, long for opportunity and prosperity. They seek a shared narrative of the future.
As elected representatives, you embody the aspirations of hundreds of millions of people, and you have consistently taken an honourable stand in support of their hopes. Today, the voice of this assembly is needed more than ever to help create and sustain the momentum towards a just and lasting peace, towards development and prosperity… and towards the future to which the people of Europe and the Middle East aspire.
Again on behalf of His Majesty King Abdullah, I welcome you to Jordan, and wish you success in your discussions.
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