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                                                                                   Banal Nationalism

                                                           2018, oil on linen diptych, each panel 29.7 x 21 cm (a4)

               ‘Banal nationalism possesses a low key, understated tone. In routine practices and everyday discourses, .
                               . . (especially those in the mass media,) . . . the idea of nationhood is regularly flagged.’
                                                                        Michael Billig, Banal Nationalism, p.154
                                                                     (Thanks also to Tom Devine & Colin Kidd)
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