Nudity in Art is Not Indecent Exposure


	Nudity in Art is Not Indecent Exposure

LOPix

9-1-2009 11:38 AM

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censorship, nudity, photography models, art museum, art

LOPix says:

The USA has one of the highest rape rates in the world -- it also seems to be among the most prudish, often defining ANY “nudity” (including simply exposure of a breast during breast-feeding an infant) as indecent and/or salacious. I wonder if there is any connection...

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f70280cf-b550-4c30-8972-250606139542/BEF83C19-8C7E-4130-8E0D-269A32E2982A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://ncacblog.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/nudity-in-art-is-not-indecent-exposure/" href="http://ncacblog.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/nudity-in-art-is-not-indecent-exposure/" style="font-size: 11px;">ncacblog.wordpress.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ncacblog.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/nudity-in-art-is-not-indecent-exposure/"><H2>Nudity in Art is Not Indecent Exposure</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ncacblog.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/nudity-in-art-is-not-indecent-exposure/">As the court noted, “It is enough to ask why a nude performance with an audience would be permitted, and a photo shoot in the same place would be prohibited, to suggest that significant constitutional problems, based on irrationality, attend the City’s reading of the statute.”</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ncacblog.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/nudity-in-art-is-not-indecent-exposure/"><P>The <A href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/08/27/us/AP-US-ODD-Nude-Model-Arrested.html">arrest of Zach Hyman’s nude model during a photo shoot at the Metropolitan Museum of Art </A>was predictable in spite of the irony of the location. Whereas marble and oil nudes are usually left at peace (not always though: <A href="http://ncac.org/Nudity_Pornography">art containing nudity is a frequent target of censorship</A>), a living woman posing naked for an artist is guilty of exposure. Some of the absurdity of that situation, however, is</p> <DL class="wp-caption alignleft">
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<P>tempered by the fact that New York’s ban on public nudity provides an exemption for “any person entertaining or performing in a play, exhibition, show, or entertainment.” In other words, nudity for artistic purposes is not illegal:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ncacblog.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/nudity-in-art-is-not-indecent-exposure/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/ncacblog.wordpress.com/img/2EE3B3ED-8175-4164-A921-F17546C99ED4" alt="Met Museum photo shoot" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/BEF83C19-8C7E-4130-8E0D-269A32E2982A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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