13.04.11

photography exhibitions have the power to feather disorder and upset the status quo. In the 1980s the art world has seen with Robert Mapplethorpe's work, a special moment, where the exhibition in Washington DC after a counteraction rather quiet at the Institute for Contemporary Art in Philadelphia.

Objections to the Mapplethorpe exhibition had to do with photographs of the artist of sexually unambiguous naked S & M gay bondage scenes.The reaction to the art of Mapplethorpe sparked another battle in the culture wars and provided ammunition to politicians like Jesse Helms, who advocated the end of safeguarding taxpayer for "outraging the modesty of art."

Although the sexual imagery in photography has the power to implode the politicians, most often audited the controversy these days is when a photographer juxtaposes religious imagery with bad elements, such as urine. While no artist in his right mind would dare to photograph the Koran submerged in a vat of urine, the crucifix is ​​a bet allowed.Christians, after all, do not react as radical Muslims. There will be no large-scale riots, people will not die or be targeted for liquidation.

Source: Philadelphia Center City Weekly Press