PHIL 1361 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Robert Mapplethorpe, Jesse Helms, Piss Christ
25 May 2019
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The national endowment for the arts has gotten heat for using public funds to support controversial works. 1987: andres serrano"s piss christ a photograph of a plastic crucifix in a glass of. Not directly funded by the nea, but it was in a series of photographs that won a ,000 award by the southeast center for contemporary art, where some of the prize money was partially funded by the nea. 1989: robert mapplethorpe: photography of homoerotic portraits of nude men and included scenes of bondage and sadomasochism. Corcoran museum of art in washington dc decided against hosting an. This lead to complains from artists, civil liberty activists, and gay advocates. Mary devereaux: because we have moved away from the notion of art for art"s sake" and recognize that art can have moral content, then it opens itself up to moral and political interference. Art plays several social roles, and should be able to be displayed.
