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Is Abortion A Work Of Art?
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Subject: Re: Is Abortion A Work Of Art?
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:30:32 -0800 (PST)
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On Nov 21, 6:00=A0am, Sound of Trumpet <soundoftrum...@dcemail.com>
wrote:
> http://www.godandscience.org/doctrine/yale_abortion_as_art.html
>
> What's the Problem With Yale Student, Aliza Shvarts, and "Abortion as
> Art"?
> by Rich Deem
>
> Introduction
>
> Abortion as Art?
>
> Senior Yale student, Aliza Shvarts, decided to do her senior art
> project on abortion, using her own body to produce the "art." She has
> been roundly condemned by both pro- and anti-abortion proponents.
> Regardless of the question of whether the work amounts to art, why
> would pro-abortion proponents complain about what she did. She did
> nothing illegal, and since abortion is supposed to be a freedom worth
> defending, her having done it several months in a row should be a
> cause for the celebration of her freedom. Why doesn't anybody buy
> that?
I never thought of abortion as art, but actually it is a perfect
example of art. True art is anything that provokes a strong emotional
response in the viewer, which abortion seems to do nicely. Good art
should shock and offend and leave the viewer feeling soiled and dirty
and traumatized for weeks.
A watercolor of a flower or a building - no matter how accurately
rendered - is not art, which is why Adolf Hitler was a failed artist.
Taking a plastic crucifix and dunking it in a jar of your own urine is
art, since it upsets people so much. A lump of elephant dung can be
transformed into art simply by labeling it the "Virgin Mary," since it
now provokes an emotional response that the simple pile of shit failed
to do before.
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"You see, our photographic experiment involves beauty and crime: we
feel them to be one. We have a theory that crime enhances one's
beauty. The worse the crime gets, the more ravishing one becomes."
-- Female Trouble
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