The New Yorker's 44 Cover: Obama's Election To Higher Office

BAGnewsNotes

November 15, 2008

With the election not even two weeks old, president-elect Obama is being elevated to lofty heights through artistic inspiration. In light of the "Obamanomenon," I'm curious about this new cover of The New Yorker.

Elegant in its peacefulness, its spirituality (the "O" like the new moon) and Obama's power duet with Lincoln, I do have some concerns about deification. Specifically, it's hard not to look at the framing here without intuiting Obama as a celestial body or, thinking halo, as some kind of angel. I mean, it's not easy to make the statue come off with a lesser pedestal.

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