Kate Bush in 'Erotic Art' sensation!

You're a dead man.

Martin Kemp(e) also?

What it reveals above all is how styles of art have changed over the centuries, while human beings and their desires have essentially stayed the same.

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HI DERE SPARTA

brian sewell wrote an unabashed slam of this show, and it has that weird mix of unabashed detail and almost comic fustiness that makes some british newspaper writing so fun to read

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/arts/artexhibition-20637709-details/Seduced%3A+Art+And+Sex+From+Antiquity+To+Now/artexhibitionReview.do?reviewId=23416411

you want to be like 'tmi, brian!!' but that's his point

abashed he ain't

"almost comic fustiness" is Brian Sewell's vocation in life

the ica has a (supporting?) season of porn films (ie "this is the one travis takes betsy to in 'taxi driver'" -- woo book me a ticket) and i am kind of ech on that. still, bums on seats and through gallery turnstiles is what it's all about.

still, bums on seats screens and through gallery turnstiles is what it's all about

That the ACTUAL Kate Bush? Pity if not, and prob not. She's admirably/honestly open about being into sex. That's crap about cultures always being uncomfortable about representing sex (calling ancient Greece!/Rome!whoever!), esp as I've been noticing western culture getting yet MORE uptight about it (and thus provoking more extreme representations of it, hello that doesn't work but it gives artists a cheapass way to look radical) in the last decade or so. Sex is good, sex is interesting, but no more interesting than anything else we do.

xpost yes yes obv an exhibition focussing on reps of sex has to be about titillation, grow up. That term was only invented to give dorks like "you" (yr prob just joking but a lot of people really think that) a way to justify yr prudery

Gumph!

not sure who President Evil is cavilling at

"Sex is good, sex is interesting, but no more interesting than anything else we do."

uh

He's a Spock-Puppet.

See, George Michael should have sung those lyrics instead.

Ned, did you get the ILX3 comp OK?

esp as I've been noticing western culture getting yet MORE uptight about it

President Evil is actually a 5,000,000-year-old mountain gnome

You can talk

For obvious reasons I have filtered any images containing the word 'bush' in my browser. This is how I am punished.

you son of a bitch

ha

What it reveals above all is how styles of art have changed over the centuries, while human beings and their desires have essentially stayed the same.

I think most social historians would actually disagree with this. Desire is not just some biological constant, it is very much affected by culture, and therefore it has changed throughout history. For example, the Ancient Greek men/boy love is not the same at all as today's stereotypical homosexual desire.

http://www4.ncsu.edu/~kacollin/images/HeadInHands.jpg

Tuomas is actually correct here, NV.

delete the word "stereotypical" and it's not.

He's almost as correct as when quitney and me pointed it out at the top of this bleeding thread.