Thursday, December 30, 2010

Avant Blog

In an article about  mediated identity shaped by outsider status and pigeonholing, Aymar Jean Christian asserts "Some of the greatest artists and thinkers of the 20th century took their less-than-popular identities and used them to create bold works about the broader culture, about society and civilization, from Toni Morrison and James Baldwin to David Wojnarowicz and Judith Butler."
On Embracing the Burden of Representation at Televisual.

Babylon Baroque documents a censoring from the 1890s because of perceived lewdity in Augustus Saint-Gaudens and the "indelicate" ephebe

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