From: Cactus Cowboy (cactus@tritel.net)
Date: 08/23/02-10:26:18 PM Z
Correct me if I'm wrong, but what Solomon-Godeau is saying is that there's
little difference between sophisticated art patrons admiring a 'tasteful
nude' in a museum and a sex-crazed teenager 'spanking the monkey' while
drooling over a copy of Hustler in his bedroom. There really is a thin line
between Art and Porno, isn't there?
Dave in Wyoming
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From: <ARTHURWG@aol.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca>
Sent: Friday, August 23, 2002 11:11 AM
Subject: Re: Art vrs. Porno etc.
> Here's what feminist critic Abigal Solomon-Godeau has to say (in 1991) on
> the subject:
>
> "...whatever the elements that differentiate an art photograph of a female
> nude encountered in a museum from a photographic pin-up, both types of
image
> may posit a similar-- if not identical-- set of subject/ object
relations,
> and induce or foster fantasies that are themselves symptoms of the
unequal
> ordering of sexual difference."
>
> "Insofar as the various mechanisms of representation function to position
> women as object-of-the-gaze -- be it the voyeuristic gaze of mastery,
> imaginary knowledge, or possession, or the fetishistic gaze that
> simultaneously denies and commemorates sexual difference-- the act of
looking
> itself will be articulated through these psychic and social structures."
>
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