The Mapplethorpe work I am interested in for my specialist location includes homoerotic and BDSM acts (including coprophagia), and classical nudes. Mapplethorpe's X Portfolio series sparked national attention in the early 1990s when it was included in The Perfect Moment, a traveling exhibition funded by National Endowment for the Arts. The portfolio includes some of Mapplethorpe's most explicit imagery, including a self-portrait with a bullwhip inserted in his anus.
Though his work had been regularly displayed in publicly funded
exhibitions, conservative and religious organizations, such as the American Family Association,
seized on this exhibition to vocally oppose government support for what
they called "nothing more than the sensational presentation of
potentially obscene material.
No comments:
Post a Comment