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Originally Posted by sputnik
so, if it's not well-known art the masses like, then it's ok to destroy it? my, how enlightened of you...
this pic, along with a lot of goldin's stuff, has been shown in a lot of museums in different cities and never caused an outrage. just goes to show how mass hysteria and puritanism are back into fashion. not to mention un-ironic calls for burning of art that is deemed 'offensive'... kind of scary if you ask me.
also, nan goldin may not be very famous with the mainstream public but i don't know a single person that's into photography and modern art that doesn't know who she is.
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The whole hysteria over this isn't particually dissimilar to the reactions to Mapplethorpes exhibitions, which have lessened over time, although there was recently a collection which toured to london where there was public outcry (well right wing tabloid outcry anyway) because the exhibition was putting three of his genres together to contrast them, namely his gay/sm stuff, his flowers and his pictures of children. Of course the outcry was because it's obscene to put pictures of children next to pictures of men being fisted..... That was pedophilia as well. This all makes me very embarrassed to be british.
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Originally Posted by Yoko Ono
Someone with money should buy the photo and burn it . End of story.
It couldn't be worth that much surely. I wouldn't pay $1 for it.
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It's worth more than most people earn in a year i would have thought, which is just as well with people with your attitude about.