Just when you thought it was safe… yeah yeah: the July edition of Art Monthly Australia has a ‘controversial’ cover, one featuring a photograph of a young child, taken in 2003 by Melbourne photographer Polixeni Papapetrou of her daughter Olympia. Unsurprisingly, KRudd has condemned the magazine; the photograph has soon-to-be ex-Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson hollering for a marshal. Curiously, unlike Bill Henson’s photographic productions, The Age (Fairfax Corporation) has declared the image of this particular person of interest to be deserving of publication. Funnily:
THE girl at the centre of the latest storm over child nudity in art yesterday defended the pictures, while Federal Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson called for a police investigation. Olympia Nelson, 11, appears naked on the cover of Art Monthly magazine in a photo taken when she was six years old by her mother, Melbourne photographer Polixeni Papapetrou. Speaking to the media outside her home yesterday alongside her father, Age art critic Robert Nelson, Olympia said she was “really, really offended” at Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s comments that he cannot stand the image…
See also : Bill Henson : Video response (June 2, 2008) | Bill Henson Again (Again) (May 29, 2008) | 2020 Open Letter in Support of Bill Henson; Bill Henson … Again (May 27, 2008) | Bill Henson : Crikey! says Clive (May 26, 2008) | Bill Henson : Art or Pornography? (May 25, 2008) | mgk / suki has an opinion down after complaint by local white supremacists to MD Webhosting (May 24, 2008)
Alison Croggon is in rebel Cork! I have to cover for her, where to start, same again really.
Well the Pope has a big painting of a trussed up Japanese schoolgirl, the truth is trussed up, trussing up Japanese schoolgirls is not sexual.
Caravaggio used to truss up Japanese schoolgirls, artists have been doing it for years.
Sydney Morning Herald, Australia – 3 hours ago
“The little girl is in there along with bondage images, including one of a Japanese schoolgirl in school uniform trussed up in rope while another image [shows an adult woman also trussed up, with breasts and genitals exposed.]”
I think that more or less has it covered, oh, Cate is to play a trussed up schoolgirl in her next movie.
“Ms Tankard Reist said it was hard to talk about art restoring dignity when another image in the magazine showed a woman being fellated by an octopus.”
A woman… being fellated… by an octopus…!
WFA is interesting… as is Ms Tankard.
That’s why i goto art school. Fellatio, yeah.
No-one tell Gregory or KRudd about Snugglepot and Cuddlepie. I think they might die if the see it. Wait…
Hey Gregory, look up Snugglepot and Cuddlepie.
As for the octopus thing, that’s long been a theme in Japanese art (“触手強姦”). True story.
What can I say? I went and saw the ukiyo-e exhibition a couple of years ago at the NGV and really liked it. And I was traumatised by watching Legend of the Overfiend.
A guy got busted recently (in Oz) for Octopus porn. You are turning a bit Japanese, they do tend to molest marine life, schoolgirls etc.
Octopus sex man avoids jail term
NEWS.com.au
July 17, 2008
The judge said McLagan had little, if any, interest in child pornography and that it was accessed while he was trawling for bestiality images. …
It ain’t all sexual, I think they eat whales. However, I’m sure a dead whale will be hanging from a gallery ceiling in Oz soon enough.
If a few pro-porn lunatics at the classification board in Oz have there way, no doubt.
Oh, and there’s a whale skeleton hanging out in the Queensland Museum. I think this proves beyond doubt that the Museum Board has more than a handful of pro-porn lunatics involved in making its decisions, appointed, quite probably, as a result of the machinations of Trotskyist-influenced bureaucrats in the State Government.