Ultra-conservative penis panic shows the slow creep of Western censorship ✒️ stefanohat via ipaperviews
Perhaps you have your own trigger points in art. Would you have been outraged by Marcel Duchamp’s 1917 “Fountain”, a signed porcelain urinal? Maybe you recall the furore surrounding the infamous 1997 “Sensation” exhibition which included both Marcus Harvey’s painting of killer Myra Hindley and Chris Ofili’s “Holy Virgin Mary” made from porn magazines and elephant dung.
When we condemn Florida conservatives as philistines, we must note our own red lines. One person’s Michelangelo is another’s Damian Hirst, Picasso or Banksy. But, in a world where extreme violence in art appears to pass almost unchallenged, our continuing issue with a penis or vulva is mystifying and alarming. Sadly, there appear to be few votes in defending the arts like Winston Churchill, who in 1938 said: “The arts are essential to any complete national life”.
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