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October 09, 2006
Erotic or Exotic?
N’er mind pornographic. It’s the age old debate about Sex and the Artist. What’s the difference between erotic and pornographic? [Erotic is using a feather, pornographic is using the whole chicken].
Germaine Greer writes in the Guardian about Rodin’s sculpture and does a good job of debunking the pornographic debate, and has an interesting slant on the plausibility erotic sculpture: “Explicit and erotic are not at all the same thing, and "erotic sculpture" is an oxymoron. Sculpture is monumental, immobile and, in our necropolitan museum system, out of reach.”
As a sometime painter and photographer of naked women it’s a debate I am forced to revisit with tedious regularity.
August Rodin, Iris, bronze
Posted by john at October 9, 2006 03:10 PM