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In an ironic gesture he excluded the one animal in Saint-Saëns’s work that is<br />
actually from Australia – the kangaroo – and in its place included the rabbit.<br />
The animals here represent the ‘inner being’, the wild beast, in all of us. This<br />
thought is continued in a somewhat different way in Carnival of the Humans,<br />
which shows the characteristics of human types, or beasts (in some of whom<br />
it is possible to recognise well known figures from the world of politics). Some<br />
beasts are exposed to the extreme demands and machinations of contemporary<br />
society, while on the other side stand successful and self-confident<br />
political leaders, whom Leunig ruthlessly paints as the worst of all – full of<br />
ambition, lacking imagination and worthy of ridicule. The individual human<br />
being mixes with the collective; the individual stands both in opposition to<br />
society and within it. What here is a human being?<br />
Katarina Šter<br />
Prevod / Translation: Neville Hall<br />
PROGRAM / PROGRAM<br />
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