https://www.posetteforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=1314&p=19309#p19309
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Monday, 07 March 2005, 03:39 AM


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Oh, GP, I know how I feel about it.  I feel disgusted by their reactions.

As for the all too common agrument about protecting childern from art that the saleswoman implies by her comment.  I for once have been exposed to art since a very young age.  Among my favorite books when I was a child was "A Childern's History of Art".  It taught about many of the artforms from neolithic to modern.  I did not hide or ignore artistic nudes, it showed then as art in the illustrations and it discussed openly and frankly.  As I recall that book included photographs of "Venus de Milo", "The Dying Gaul", and "The Discus Thrower".

At that age, I also had access to books about Mythology, History, Archaeology, Anthropology, and many other subjects.  Many of them included illustrations that were far more extreme than anything than I would have been showing that saleswoman had she viewed my works.

I had access to other books on the subject of art, all illustrated.  One important thing that all these books had in common was that reguarless of being written for adults or childern, they all visual forms as somthing to be analyzed and appreciated.  Some of the childerns books encouraged the development of personal tastes in art.  I don't think that my exposure at that age to such works harmed me at all.

On the contrary, when I was in school, I had times when I was diguested by the reactions of my fellow students who had been "protected" from such images, when they were exposed to them.  More than once while in public school, there accidental exposures of the students to nude images.  For me, it was nothing.  For others who had been "protected", it was a major event that always ended badly.

Pangor