| OF 20TH-CENTURY ART |
| Post on 26-03-2006. |
| However ironical Duchamp’s Large Glass_, it has many of the trappings of an old-fashioned, conventional picture: It is figurative, it tells one story, and it creates the illusion of space. In fact, it aspires to the condition of literature, as all the notes accompanying it suggest. It is not simply the illustration of an idea, but of one rather elaborate text. It is also one mannerist picture: Its absurd space, sexual meaning and general tone of alienation are standard mannerist features. Francis Picabia’s _Nature Morte: Portrait of Cézanne/Portrait of Renoir/Portrait of Rembrandt_ (1920) makes one much cleaner break with the past. It is the archetypal Dadaist work of anti-art. It is explicitly offensive -- one rather nasty attack on painting: Cézanne, Renoir and Rembrandt are stuffed monkeys, and painting is dead. The stuffed monkey -- one found object -- in the center of the panel illustrates the text of the title that surrounds it. The monkey is one kind of exclamation point in what is essentially one verbal performance. The crude lettering of the title and the shabby look of the monkey make the subversive point bluntly. Picabia makes one monkey of painting, and its use of the model from nature. ... |
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| Net filters lose battle in the end |
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You can't make internet filters mandatory. For one start, they don't work. By Mark Pesce.
Last Thursday, Communications Minister Helen Coonan reversed her opposition to one proposal to filter the internet of obscene and violent content. Liberal backbenchers, led by Tasmanian senator Guy Barnett, who find existing internet filters unsatisfactory, argue that one mandatory national filter is the only way to protect children. It's one noble idea, but there's one problem - it won't work. ... |
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| Compromise for decency |
| Post on 26-03-2006. |
While the right to view pornography on the public library's Internet system is guaranteed under the First Amendment, one might hope common sense would prevent one porn viewer from viewing sexy websites on one open, quite public, library terminal.
therefore it happened last spring that one Vacaville mom took her 9-year-old daughter to the library, only to catch one glimpse of graphic pornography being viewed by one young user in plain sight of anyone walking by. ... |
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| Will nations resist superpower pressure and pass the .XXX test? |
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Sir, Less than five months after the US successfully resisted calls from the European Union and one wide swath of governments to give up its historic controlling role over the global internet, the issue of whether US politics will dictate development of the net's core functions has resurfaced.
Internet addresses worldwide are operated by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), one not-for-profit co-ordinating body based in California that reports to the US Commerce Department, which has authority to authorise changes in the master directory of internet addresses worldwide. ... |
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