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Re: Art! or Not Art!
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 6 Jan 2000 18:49:04 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal writes:
> > Here's my definition of pornography-(in jest, a little)
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> > pornography- the word a prude uses to describe media which portrays folks • who
> > are having more fun than he is.
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> > I guess my point here is that words like "obscene" "pornography" and • "decent"
> > say more about the speaker than the thing the speaker is describing.
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> I'm not so sure (see my post above). Can't I come up with an idea so obscene
> that every normal, decent human being will say, "That's sick!"
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> -John
How about this one - a parent eating his child! Sick! Cannibalism!
Disgusting. Certainly Not Art! And certainly on paper, this really seems like
a candidate.
Goya's "Saturn Devouring one of his Children".
http://www.imageone.com/goya/saturn.html
Generally accepted as Art.
Bruce
"Art is a wiggly little beast"
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| (...) like (...) And even more frightening if the academnic speculation is true that the painting was modified from its original form, with Saturn originally having a very erect phallus while he devours the child. -- jthompson@esker.com "Float on a (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) I'm not so sure (see my post above). Can't I come up with an idea so obscene that every normal, decent human being will say, "That's sick!" -John (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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