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Pierre Joubert (1910-2002) was to Le Scoutisme in France what
Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) was to Scouting in America: the
illustrator who not only recorded its early years, but also
strongly influenced the way the movement saw itself.
But where boys as Rockwell drew them were mostly unexceptional,
the boys Joubert drew -- at least in his realistic art -- were
slender, flat-bellied, and as graceful as cats: to no small
extent, his drawings defined *the* ideal body form for several
generations of French boys.
Joubert's drawings celebrate the Boy Thing -- adventure, in a
word -- more exuberantly than possibly any other artist: his
boys are almost always *doing* something, and frequently doing
it quite enthusiastically, strenuously, seriously, desperately,
and/or heroically; Rockwell's boys are, by comparison, seldom
more than figures in a Christmas tableau.
And to those who object that some of the celebrants of the Boy
Thing in these pictures do not appear to be... exactly *boys*,
one can only observe that if the Boy Thing is defined as being
What Boys Do, might it not be useful to treat anyone who does
What Boys Do as a Boy? Why should a Pink Blanket be Destiny?
And do Joubert's girls please the eye any less than his boys?
Ronin
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