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Feminists to Take Down World-Famous Work of Art Commoner 02/03/18 (Sat) 06:41:32 No.1901

Clare Gannaway, the gallery’s curator of contemporary art, said the aim of the removal was to provoke debate, not to censor. “It wasn’t about denying the existence of particular artworks.”

The work usually hangs in a room titled In Pursuit of Beauty, which contains late 19th century paintings showing lots of female flesh.

Gannaway said the title was a bad one, as it was male artists pursuing women’s bodies, and paintings that presented the female body as a passive decorative art form or a femme fatale.

“For me personally, there is a sense of embarrassment that we haven’t dealt with it sooner. Our attention has been elsewhere … we’ve collectively forgotten to look at this space and think about it properly. We want to do something about it now because we have forgotten about it for so long.”

Gannaway said the debates around Time’s Up and #MeToo had fed into the decision.

The removal itself is an artistic act and will feature in a solo show by the artist Sonia Boyce which opens in March. People can tweet their opinion using #MAGSoniaBoyce.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/jan/31/manchester-art-gallery-removes-waterhouse-naked-nymphs-painting-prompt-conversation

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Aristocrat 02/04/18 (Sun) 16:35:31 No.1925

Pardon my ignorance, but how does feminism relate to monarchism?

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Commoner 02/04/18 (Sun) 16:47:57 No.1930

>>1925

Not OP, but I think I can see a loose metaphor between this act of femynystlgbbqtXYZ123's and the destruction of the old world. At any rate, it only killed some thread nobody cared about, so I'm fine with it being here.

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Commoner 02/05/18 (Mon) 13:22:12 No.1952

>>1925

It's highlighting the existence of Babylon so that everybody will redouble their support for the Messiah, should he arrive.

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Crusader 07/14/18 (Sat) 06:49:12 No.3199

There was a fine piece about this at the Orthosphere blog:

>I do not believe the Manchester Art Gallery had a problem with males scratching their itch as they stood before Hylas and the Nymphs, or even with male patrons running for the exits in search of some compliant scratcher. The problem was not that men were scratching, but that they might start itching.

>In other words, the problem was “sex in the head.”

>But this sex in the head was not a problem for the reason D. H. Lawrence and Dr. Brubaker saw it as a problem, which was that it might not get scratched. And it was not a problem for the reason Francesco Colonna saw it as a problem, which was that it might get scratched.

>It was a problem because it was in the head, and therefore outside the control of the bitter harridans who had the painting removed.

>What I believe worried the bitter harridans was that viewing Hylas and the Nymphs might give a man the itch for world in which there were more nymphs and fewer Harridans. This would not be, I hasten to add, a fantasy of the global bordello, since that is what we actually have. It is a fantasy where the male gaze is met, as it is being met in this painting, by an equally prurient gaze.

>That is, after all, what happened when Hylas came to this grotto. He fell for the nymphs and they fell for him. Everyone got the itch and their itches all got scratched.

>Release me, O Nymphs, I implore ye! For when through these waters I sank.

>Ye promised to lead me back thither, Now must I return on my way

>But vainly he pleaded in accents, Now angry, now tearful, now soft

>The nymphs flung their white arms around him ‘O Hylas, we love thee, here dwell!’

>. . . .

>So softly beguiled with their voices, he gave him to lover’s delights,

>And the nymphs of the grotto, as servants, attended his slightest behest.”

>(Cecil Roberts “Strayed Hylas” [c. 1920])

https://orthosphere.wordpress.com/2018/05/03/profiles-in-prurience/

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Peasant 07/14/18 (Sat) 22:11:52 No.3202

>>3199

"Scratch" has got to be the most polite way of saying it that I've heard.

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Peasant 07/16/18 (Mon) 02:35:56 No.3208

>>3199

you're exactly right, it is frumpy self-hating b*tches who want to destroy even the *idea* of young women acting feminine. they are censoring art for that reason, to help fill their goal.

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Peasant 08/07/18 (Tue) 10:56:30 No.3359

>Censoring art

As dangerous as censuring knowledge.

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Peasant 09/02/18 (Sun) 14:36:49 No.3439

>>3208

Women will be the death of women

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Peasant 09/02/18 (Sun) 16:38:53 No.3440

>>3439

Women suffer like men. Their contorted instincts reverse where love becomes lust, where fidelity becomes infidelity, and where beauty becomes nothingness. Feminism another is cast designed for lost women to resent men. As a model, feminism starts with its democratic longing from the suffragettes as it started with men who desire democracy and power and treasure civic interests over society rather than the original familial society (which still shapes the Western world). It starts where we began to think only in terms of individualist and collectivist. It starts with a central concept these ideas revolve around. Feminism, like all other ideologues, revolves around this awful stew.

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Peasant 09/02/18 (Sun) 16:42:28 No.3441

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>>1901

>>1925

Feminism is another disease. They expect us to eat it up.

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Peasant 11/14/18 (Wed) 16:44:54 No.4517

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>>1901

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Peasant 11/14/18 (Wed) 18:12:38 No.4530

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Peasant 11/29/18 (Thu) 08:38:59 No.5041

>>4517

This is terribly true.

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Peasant 11/29/18 (Thu) 10:28:54 No.5059

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Peasant 12/05/18 (Wed) 16:24:18 No.5193

>>5041

You are terribly correct.

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