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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Matthew Miller writes:
> John Neal <johnneal@uswest.net> wrote:
> > It's useful if you are a pervert trying to pass off obscenities as art.
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> "Pornography!" is a useful label if you're a reactionary who is frightened
> by art that might make people think.
Yikes! We risk lumping The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa in with Larry Flynt's
latest offerings if we hide behind the "make people think" shield with no
other back-up.
Dave!
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| (...) Possibly. "Makes people think" isn't the sole definition of art, though. (See my earlier post.) Part of the issue is that "what art is good art" (good for people, good for society, good as art for its own sake, whatever) should be seperated (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) It's useful if you are a pervert trying to pass off obscenities as art. (...) Well, one is expressed in writing and the other is expressed in a painting. (...) How about Guernica is a painting that expresses a political statement? -John (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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