Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art." - Pablo Picasso

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Robert Mapplethorpe.  Calla Lily.  1984.
http://www.masters-of-photography.com/M/mapplethorpe/mapplethorpe_calla_full.html

Robert Mapplethorpe.  Charles. 1985.
http://www.masters-of-photography.com/M/mapplethorpe/mapplethorpe_charles_full.html

Robert Mapplethorpe.  Untitled (male nude).  1981.
20th Century Photography Museum Ludwig Cologne. Taschen, Koln, 2005.

Robert Mapplethorpe.  Orchid.  1985.
http://images.artnet.com/artwork_images_230_14233_robert-mapplethorpe.jpg

"There's something kind of intuitively alchemical I'm trying to do, and I don't know if sometimes it's really art that I'm trying to land at.  Sometimes it's outside of art." - Ron Athey

"Ron Athey forces the body to transcend it's confines.  His brilliance manifests as exorcism not only of, and for, the cauterizing of his own pain, but by pushing the boundaries of endurance through artistic expression,he shares his compassionate epiphany:  We all need to break free from the shackles placed upon the individual by society, family, religion and gender." - From Ron Athey's biography

Ron Athey performing
http://www.artofnightlife.net/

Robert Mapplethorpe.  American Flag.  1987.
http://www.matthewlangley.com/blog/uploaded_images/artwork_images_
909_179946_robert-mapplethorpe-759862.jpg

Created by an act of Congress in 1965 as an independent agency fo the National government

NEA mission - "to enrich our Nation and its diverse cultural heritage by supporting works of artistic excellence, advancing learning in the arts, and strengthening the arts in communities throughout the country."

"Culture Wars" in the 1990s and their effects on the National Endowment for the Arts

1990

Four artists apply for grants and are denied because their works deemed "indescent" by Congress

NEA decides to cease funding for individual artists

1991

Perfect Moment exhibition at Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center

Senator Jesse Helms rips copy of Piss Christ on Congressional floor

1996

Congress cuts NEA funding by 30% to $99.5 million

Congress votes to phase funding of NEA in two years

House announces plan to eliminate NEA

1998

Supreme Court determines that the statute mandating the NEA to consider “general standards of decency and respect for the diverse beliefs and values of the American public” in awarding grants is constitutional.

"NEA Four" compensated with money equal to grant money they would have received

2009

NEA has $155 million budget

Guerrilla Girls in 2009
http://www.shewrites.com/profile/GUERRILLAGIRLSONTOUR

Body Politics

Cindy Sherman. Untitled #263. 1992.
Cruz, Amanda and Elizabeth A. T. Smith.  Cindy Sherman: Retrospective.  Chicago:  Thames & Hudson, 1998.

Taking the lead of the feminists, artists continue to recognize the body as a political site

Examine the diseased, flawed, victimized and ignored body

Countered the modernist focus on abstraction and the objectification of the nude

Untitled (detail)
http://www.chrisdiedericks.co.za/content/triKikiSmith.html

Kiki Smith. Pee Body. 1992. Pee Body, 1992. Wax and 23 strands of glass beads.
http://www.sculpture.org/documents/scmag06/march_06/smith/smith.shtml

Kiki Smith. Tale. 1992. Beeswax, microcrystaline wax, pigment, and papier-mache.
http://www.learn.columbia.edu/fa/images/medium/kc_femart_smith_k_1.jpg

Janine Antoni. Chocolate Gnaw. 1992. 600 lbs. of chocolate on marble pedestal.
Grosenick, Uta ed. Women Artists in the 20th and 21st Century. Taschen, Koln. 2005.

Janine Antoni. Lard Gnaw. 1992. 600 lbs. of lard on marble pedestal.
Grosenick, Uta ed. Women Artists in the 20th and 21st Century. Taschen, Koln. 2005.

Chocolate and Lard Gnaw installation view
http://www.pbs.org/art21/slideshow/?slide=140&artindex=44

Lipsticks and chocoalte boxes in display cases

Janine Antoni. Lipsticks and Candy Box. 1992.
Grosenick, Uta ed. Women Artists in the 20th and 21st Century. Taschen, Koln. 2005.

Andres Serrano. The Morgue (AIDS related Death II). 1992.
Riemschneider, Burkhard, and Uta Grosenick. Art at the Turn of the Millennium. Taschen, Koln. 1999.

Andres Serrano. The Morgue (Fatal Meningitis II). 1992.
Riemschneider, Burkhard, and Uta Grosenick. Art at the Turn of the Millennium. Taschen, Koln. 1999.