Drawing lines this way may seem arbitrary and sometimes it is, Cahn said. “It’s about personal background, what society and culture did you grow up in, the mores and values of your world. I tried to be as objective as possible but I knew there would be times when my life story would enter into how I look at things and what kind of art I like.”
On fast track
with
Dr. Ashok Koparday
details for the connoisseur:
On exhibit
Date: Friday, May 29th – Friday, July 31st
Note the timings:
Tuesday – Saturday, 12:00 noon – 4:00 pm
(Closed Sundays and Mondays)
Venue is SoFA Gallery, Bloomington, IN
On fast track
with
Dr. Ashok Koparday
PORN OR EROTIC
Question:
How would you decide if an image or page is porn, erotic, sensuous, fun, sexy, educational, adult content?
Reply 1
A smart guy may reply about an image using combination of above words such as:
erotic porn or
tasteful erotic story,
erotic sex adult,
nude erotic art.
Reply 2
A lady may simply classify as
erotic, porn, or artistic.
Reply 3
Art historian and museum curator
Jennifer Cahn was in similar dilemma when she was asked to select work for the fourth annual art show of the famous Kinsey Institute (The details of the venue and dates are given below.).
Jennifer Cahn gives lucid example to show how she differentiates porn from art.
“Homemade work done in a bedroom by a lover was erotica. When it was a professional photographer in a studio, for me, that was making porn. It sounds corny but those aren’t about love. It is about sex devoid of emotion. Even a homemade image that has other emotions like anger, resentment, repression, those to me were beautiful and fascinating. The commercial ones were not.”
Reply 4
Catherine Johnson-Roehr, who runs Kiinsey’s art operation remarks, “We try to avoid making the distinction here,” She explained, “Anybody who comes here, or sees the online galleries, sees that it is a wide range of art and some of it might fit a particular person’s definition of porn.”
“The distinguishing factor to me was that I was looking for work with the strongest aesthetic qualities,” she explained. “And I was aware that there are lots of topical issues out there and I wanted to make sure as many voices got a say as possible. Some [works] have to do with ageism; how old can you be and still be sexually attractive? I picked things dealing with the forbidden — S and M and voyeurism and public sex.”
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AWARD WINNING IMAGES CLICK HERE
Fourth Annual Kinsey Institute Juried Art Show
May 29 – July 31, 2009
Indiana University School of Fine Arts Gallery
Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts
1201 E 7th St., Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405
(T) 812 855-8490 (F) 812 855-7498
Tuesday to Saturday, 12 noon – 4pm (closed Sundays and Mondays)
The fourth annual Kinsey Institute Juried Art Show opens on May 29, and will feature more than 100 artworks in a wide range of media created by contemporary artists from across the U.S. and the world. This year the exhibition is moving from the Kinsey Institute Gallery to the Indiana University School of Fine Arts Gallery. With increasing numbers of entries each year, the show has outgrown its original home in Morrison Hall. Located in the heart of the Bloomington campus, the SoFA Gallery provides a more spacious and convenient location for the exhibition.
Source:
Reporter:
Brian Alexander
URL: msnbc.com
Dated:
updated 8:43 a.m. ET May 28, 2009
Date Accessed:
July 2, 2009 01:00 pm IST
Brian Alexander is the author of the book “America Unzipped: In Search of Sex and Satisfaction,” now in paperback.
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