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Robert Mapplethorpe
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Robert Mapplethorpe
Legal & aesthetic analysis of sadomasochistic photos, critical responses, theory of art, censorship, Cincinnati pornography trial.
4,050 words (approx. 16.2 pages) |
14 sources |
1996
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"The photographer Robert Mapplethorpe has been the subject of a continuing series of debates about what is or is not art, about which art should be supported by public funds, and about the nature of his own work. At the center of the controversies are a group of works known as the X Portfolio which depict homoerotic sadomasochistic acts and, more generally, eroticize male genitalia in a manner never attempted before in Western art. The cancellation of a Mapplethorpe retrospective by the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D. C., the uproar in Congress over funding the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), and the obscenity trial of a Cincinnati museum and its director were the major events in the controversy that reached beyond Mapplethorpe himself and extended to a public furor over the nature of art. In the midst of these controversies, the philosopher and art..."More papers on Robert Mapplethorpe:
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Robert Mapplethorpe (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 12, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Research-Paper-Robert-Mapplethorpe/11856
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