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Thank Goodness for "Art"
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 1:53 pm
by Ryan Salo
http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/24513
Thank goodness there are so many people fighting for her "right" to do this...
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 1:56 pm
by sharon kinsella
I think it's disgusting and she has some major mental issues.
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 2:18 pm
by Ryan Salo
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 12:28 am
by dl meckes
Might want to take a look at this:
http://yaledailynews.com/articles/view/24528
and think of the quote that Barnum purportedly never said...
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 7:41 am
by sharon kinsella
Thank goodness - thanks DL.
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 3:21 pm
by Phil Florian
Wow. It got Fox News to take a look so I would assume her plan worked.
Had she simply had an exhibit that had abstract images that were intended to deal with a woman's body then I am sure most news organizations would have taken a pass.
It is always refreshing in the rare instances where fiction is finally stranger than truth.
yale
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 5:42 pm
by ryan costa
Yale is in Connecticut. there are probably old Anti-Witchcraft laws on the book somewhere thereabouts. Laws vague enough to try and convict her. It will be hard to prove her intentions were to cast magic spells though.
Ever since cameras were invented it has been more harder for artists to simply draw stuff and make a living at it. they gotta reach for new novelties. If anything at least she made a film that can prosper on the japanese fetish pornography market.
The need to create art or craftsmanship or something constructive speaks to a very human need. Sculpting is out: there are already statues of holiday themes, gnomes, and bears holding fish at Big Lots. I tried making innovative renditions of Lasagna just long enough to realize it is hard to digest lasagna.
If they trial her on old witchcraft laws they'll probably have to use old sentences too. Most likely the sentence would be 20 lashes or throwing her into the lake. Law worked faster 300 years ago because there were no type writers, word processors, or copy magines. Either sentence would give her another product for the japanese fetish pornography market.
If Ayn Rand's objectivism philosophy is to be believed or valid....since Japan is better at manufacturing nearly everything than we are...Japan would have been operating with better values and ethics over the years. As with everything else it is best to not apply Ayn Rand's Objectivism philosophy.