Do you like to see erotic art accepted, or does it sicken you?
I’m reading a biography of Yoko Ono who was in her element during the Sixties and who met a lot of reaction because she dealt with everyday things like going to the toilet, or having a fly walk up a woman’s body. Everyday happenings but which art critics and the audience couldn’t get on board with.
A famous performance art piece was having the audience use scissors ✂ to cut her clothes, and the audience would be savage, but not understand what the piece was about - the victimisation of women. Obviously, a subject that men didn’t want to hear about back then (as now, Epstein?) because they either held the idea of a woman on a pedestal, or more likely, as less than second class humans.
I am so enjoying the book, and examining the ideas she was exploring almost sixty years ago!
A famous performance art piece was having the audience use scissors ✂ to cut her clothes, and the audience would be savage, but not understand what the piece was about - the victimisation of women. Obviously, a subject that men didn’t want to hear about back then (as now, Epstein?) because they either held the idea of a woman on a pedestal, or more likely, as less than second class humans.
I am so enjoying the book, and examining the ideas she was exploring almost sixty years ago!
