N.P. censorship

[Ian Livingston]

Absolutely.  The Christian Science Monitor reviewed AtD and pretty
much lambasted it as pornography.  What that tells me is that many
ostensibly educated people lack imagination and incline to think along
party lines such that anything not aligning with the perceived
mainstream is regarded as a threat.  Luckily, the critic in question
lacks the power of censorship, so the rest of us can read one of the
great works of our time.  But, where it comes to actual pornography, I
can choose to look or not, as I see fit.  And there has been the
occasional claim that some pornography is artistic.  That could be.
There certainly is "erotic" art that I find beautiful.

-i

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:01 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> as well. what I'm more bugged about is the fact  that if shock is all
> you got, that to me shows a pretty good indicator of a lack of
> imagination, not to mention the guy explains the whole thing in the
> title--not trying to pile on the vitriol on the artist, mind you, but
> u have to give your audience some room to think, no?
>
> rich
>
> On 3/26/09, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Agreed, but it seems to me that people can decide that question for
>> themselves.  Rotten art with a rotten statement has been a theme in
>> American 'culture' for too long.  As long as it makes the headlines
>> for tripping the censorship wire, it will continue to be a theme, I
>> think.  If people just decide not to dignify it with a response, it
>> will go away.
>>
>> -i
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 8:00 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> one's torn b/w decrying censorship and having to defend shitty art
>>>
>>> shitty in the sense of being so...obvious
>>>
>>> shocking doesn't work for me anymore I suppose
>>>
>>> just my opinion
>>>
>>> that graphically depicts a female middle school student, on her knees,
>>> performing oral sex on a standing male middle school science teacher.
>>>
>>> On 3/25/09, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> This just struck me a somehow related to the topic of fascism (as in
>>>> how it is that some come to think for many):
>>>>
>>>> http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090325/entertainment/sculpture_removed
>>>>
>>>
>>
>