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Re: Censorship issues
>
> Did I mention that I am not only a devout fundamentalist christian,
> but Marie, Queen of Romania as well? Self-applied labels are *fun*.
Sorry I'm dense, but don't get this.
> >
> > Furthermore, hasn't Judy Seigel said enough that there are no neutral
> >nudes? Nudity is not neutral in the eyes of the artist and in the eyes
of
> >the viewer. How can we be neutral about exposure of who we are? There
is
> >always element of psychological risk, expressed and implied, in that. If
> >people are outraged by your treatment of the body, if this controversial
> >image is, in fact, nude, is that always wrong on their part just because
you
> >think your image is OK? Usually outrage does not come from just nudity
but
> >how the body is treated.
>
> And outrage over a photograph of an erect male penis, or
> two people having consensual sex, fits this usual case how?
>
>I should have been more clear there in my delineation of two issues: the
erect penis is still a taboo in art is what I was saying. Period. The
outrage at the treatment of the body is not necessarily a connected thought
so sorry if I made it seem that way. Obviously, having a boner is not
treating the body in a degrading fashion, nor is consensual sex; it just
happens that both fall into the pornography category instead of the erotic
art category. This, I'm sure, is changing as we speak--Jeff Koons comes to
mind.
Chris