Contra @nberlat and @miazmerrill, @EminaMelonic thinks taking down Balthus at Met would be censorship.https://www.splicetoday.com/pop-culture/censorship-as-false-morality#.Wi_qNMi9FCk.twitter …
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Replying to @MUGGER1955 @nberlat and
Getting a wee bit Victorian, aren't we? Next up, covering chair legs? (Yeah, I know that practice was apocryphal.)
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Replying to @davrola @MUGGER1955 and
The Victorians thought vicious caricatures of the Irish and others was fine. Should we reproduce those in our museums without context? You can be very sex positive and question whether sexualizing children without context is a good idea.
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Replying to @nberlat @MUGGER1955 and
The only reason anyone looks at those Irish cartoons these days is for insight into Victorian racism. By contrast, Balthus is much more polyphonic.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @MUGGER1955 and
He's polyphonic because we've decided we should look at him. It's a circular argument. "This has aesthetic value because it has aesthetic value." Should we hang Little Nemo pages in an art gallery with no discussion of the Imp?
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Replying to @nberlat @MUGGER1955 and
No, Balthus's art is demonstrably polyphonic because the more time people spend looking at it, the more they find. Not true of Irish caricature.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @MUGGER1955 and
bullshit. Every piece of art, good or bad, is polysemic.
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They are not equally polysemic. There's a wide discrepancy between how much meaning a work contains.
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