On January 29, 2007, the progressive visitors of Berkeley and San Francisco lined up at the Doe Library on the University of California campus to enjoy a poetic rendition of the kind of stuff that's happening in their bedrooms on weekends (minus cocaine). The topic of ABBA Ghraib has already been discussed on the Cube: we theorized about a torture chamber where detainees with tied feet are forced to listen to a looped tape of Dancing Queen for hours on end, unable to even as much as tap their feet to the fabulous rhythm. Pictures don't usually render sounds, but this talented painter's S&M fantasies do bring up certain echoes of the erstwhile Village People hits. I wonder how many of the Berkeley and San Francisco attendees secretly thanked the artist for giving them fresh ideas they could re-enact later that night at the bath house.Zombie
In 2005, renowned Colombian artist Francisco Botero unveiled a series of over 80 paintings and drawings which depicted stylized renditions of the prisoner abuse by American guards at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
This reminds me of Hollywood's propensity for excessive fantasy violence, especially sexual violence - created by people who claim to oppose it. Take the recent Sundance Festival showing a rape of a 12-year-old girl while Elvis Presley is heard singing in the background, or a man dying from a ruptured colon after having sex with a horse in a barn. The creators, distributors, and their captive fans will tearfully cite important social causes and the need to raise awareness of these difficult issues of our time - but let's face it: they secretly enjoy watching it. The fantasy scenes of dark sexual violence tickle their swollen taboo glands - all other explanations are mere side effects.
And, of course, this reminds me of the Soviet youth magazines that published occasional stories about Western rock'n'roll bands to "illustrate the decadence" of the Western lifestyle, and the information-deprived Soviet teens who used to read those stories religiously, so as "to learn more about the degenerate culture of the class enemy." On TV, Young Communist League (Komsomol) activists feigned disgust while discussing Black Sabbath or Iron Maiden. And everybody knew that the journalists, the readers, the activists, and the viewers all secretly enjoyed this music, which was declared a taboo by the Party's mind control apparatus.
Today's Islamic societies have more artificially imposed taboos than the Soviet Politburo could dream of. Perhaps, the proverbial resentment of the Western culture in the Middle East can be partially explained by the fact that most people find themselves secretly enjoying it and are horrified by the idea that someone in their family, especially women, might do the same. Why else would Mohammed Atta go to a strip club on the night before the terrorist attack? Let's face it: all those Muslims who have moved to the West but claim they resent its culture are hypocrites. Just like the liberal Berkeley crowd, they secretly enjoy the fantasy of breaking cultural taboos while piously condemning it in reality.
It is important to distinguish between the natural and necessary taboos (incest, rape, pedophilia) and the artificial ones (rock music, bikinis, female sexuality). When they get thrown together into one Abu Ghraib-style pile - intentionally or not - one man's perverted Technicolor dream becomes another man's neck being slowly sliced off on a grainy terror video.

Zombie
Wow, that's a nasterful essay. (I was going to write "masterful," but once I saw my n-themed typo, I realized it perfectly described the whole situation.) You did a whole lot more philosophizing about that exhibit than I did even. Suddenly, I feel so significant. But yeah, the hypocrites in the audience nauseated me. What their sexual thrill comes from is not the whips and blood, but the humiliation; they literally shudder with pleasure when they perceive an underdog being humiliated and oppressed by a capitalist dominator. The sexuality of righteousness!Red Square
A comment on Fernando Botero's art:
The Bathroom 1989
The Bathroom 1993Sister Massively Opiated
Botero's woman is a thing... not a person... she is objectified to the point of fetishism.



SMO
Clearly, Kustodiev had a love of his subject - a respect, and a wish to celebrate her. Botero's woman is a thing... not a person... she is objectified to the point of fetishism.Premier Brezhnev
Here are some HOT Russian woman in Soviet art.
My dearest friend and confidant, Dr. Palimpsest, so eloquently
Good Chairman, if you haven't been to see Lady Astrid, I highly recommend her. Talk about professionalism.Sister Massively Opiated
My point exactly. Clearly, Kustodiev has respect for this person and it is apparent in the fact that he gives her character, emotion... he captures her doing something classically Russian... traditional, using leaves to scrub herself while bathing as they might in communal peasant bathhouses and something that is still done today even in many Russian spas... she is smiling... One can imagine her laugh.
The Bathroom 1989
The Bathroom 1993Dr. W. S. Palimpsest
Premier Brezhnev
Here are some HOT Russian woman in Soviet art.
Sister Massively Opiated
Oh... by all means... check out Iran's Next Top Martyr...
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