Can Genitals Be Beautiful
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"Only in primitive art, with its urgent need to evoke the sources of fertility, are the phallus and the vulva emphasized, as it were innocently. By ancient Greek and Roman times there already existed the special category of the pornographic—graphic art or writing supposed, like a harlot, or porne, to sexually stimulate." --"Can Genitals Be Beautiful?" (1997), John Updike |
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"Can Genitals Be Beautiful?" (1997) is a text by John Updike written at the occasion of a Egon Schiele exhibition. It was published in the New York Review of Books.
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- "Indeed, Leo Steinberg has persuasively proposed, in his The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion (recently issued in a revised and expanded second edition), that from before 1400 to the mid-sixteenth century, European religious art emphasized the genitals of the infant Jesus and the dead Christ in an ostentatio genitalium that enforced the doctrine of the divine incarnation. God became, so to speak, all man."
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- New York Review of Books, December 4, 1997, 10-12. 17.
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