N.P. censorship

[Paul Mackin]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "rich" <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
To: "Ian Livingston" <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
Cc: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 11:00 AM
Subject: Re: N.P. censorship


> 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.


Well. there is shocking and shocking.

In art criticism the phrase is "shock of the new," a big deal when modern 
art was taking hold.

But that had to do with aesthetically shocking.

In the case in question, is the portrayal anything aeestically new?

Important question.

What happens when the shocking is really nothing new and therefore not 
really shocking but merely deplorable?

P






>
> 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
>>