George Shirley
March 19th 04, 05:55 PM
Stephen Harding wrote:
> Cub Driver wrote:
>
>>> Since when does your freedom of expression depend on
>>> government tax dollars?
>>
>>
>>
>> It's a fairly honored attitude in the arts. Seems to me it's ten years
>> or more since I read of a woman artist who specialized in smearing her
>> nude body with chocolate sauce (body art) who was turned down for a
>> government grant, and who responded by pointing out that her freedom
>> of speech had been infringed.
>>
>> I'm sure that the National Endowmen for the Arts hastened to send her
>> a check.
>
>
> I think I remember that.
>
> Must have been the Reagan fascists running the NEA at
> the time.
>
> Or maybe it's just a cruel world with no decent sense
> of art appreciation.
>
>
> SMH
>
Or maybe it was the series of "art" that came out about then featuring
a) a woman smearing her nude body with her own feces; b) a crucifix
upside down in a bottle of urine; and other such fine works of "art."
Big uproar from the middle of the country about those things and from of
us that live on the Middle Coast too.
Note: Newsgroups I don't read are cut out of the addressee list.
George
> Cub Driver wrote:
>
>>> Since when does your freedom of expression depend on
>>> government tax dollars?
>>
>>
>>
>> It's a fairly honored attitude in the arts. Seems to me it's ten years
>> or more since I read of a woman artist who specialized in smearing her
>> nude body with chocolate sauce (body art) who was turned down for a
>> government grant, and who responded by pointing out that her freedom
>> of speech had been infringed.
>>
>> I'm sure that the National Endowmen for the Arts hastened to send her
>> a check.
>
>
> I think I remember that.
>
> Must have been the Reagan fascists running the NEA at
> the time.
>
> Or maybe it's just a cruel world with no decent sense
> of art appreciation.
>
>
> SMH
>
Or maybe it was the series of "art" that came out about then featuring
a) a woman smearing her nude body with her own feces; b) a crucifix
upside down in a bottle of urine; and other such fine works of "art."
Big uproar from the middle of the country about those things and from of
us that live on the Middle Coast too.
Note: Newsgroups I don't read are cut out of the addressee list.
George