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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 19:03:42 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
> 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.
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> Goya's "Saturn Devouring one of his Children".
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> http://www.imageone.com/goya/saturn.html
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> Generally accepted as Art.
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 river, forever and ever, Emily"
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| (...) Modified by Goya or some later censor? I presume that he may have thought it went over the line into "that's just plain sick" (and not justified by the myths) or it simply is a delusion by some scholar. It certainly starts to edge over the (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) who (...) "decent" (...) 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". (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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