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FRANTZ FANON

"IN THE FIELD OF VISUAL ARTS, FOR EXEMPLE, THE COLONIZED CREATOR WHO AT ALL COSTS WANTS TO CREATE A WORK OF NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE CONFINES HIMSELF TO STEREOTYPING DETAILS. THESE ARTISTS, DESPITE HAVING BEEN IMMERSED IN MODERN TECHNIQUES AND INFLUENCED BY THE MAJOR CONTEMPORARY TRENDS IN PAINTING AND ARCHITECTURE, TURN THEIR BACKS ON FOREIGN CULTURE, THEY GIVE PREFERENCE TO WHAT THEY THINK TO BE THE ABIDING FEATURES OF NATIONAL ART..(...)..THE COLONIZED INTELLECTUAL, HOWEVER, WHO STRIVES FOR CULTURAL AUTHENTICITY, MUST RECOGNIZE THAT NATIONAL TRUTH IS FIRST AND FOREMOST THE NATIONAL REALITY. HE MUST PRESS ON UNTIL HE REACHES THAT PLACE OF BUBBLING TREPIDATION FROM WHICH KNOWLEDGE WILL EMERGE".

FRANTZ FANON "THE WRETCHED OF THE EARTH", 1961.