Word: artful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...learned pretty quickly that I like to mingle sex and art only rarely. Art is powerful as long as it transcends the everyday. Without distorting reality it catapults it into a higher plane of sensation. Certain sublime moments in life can simulate the best art (or vice-versa). And certainly a divine fusing of sex and art, like. Mollie Brown's solliloquoy, raises both to an incredibly exciting level...
...terribly difficult to combine sex and art without suffering. Ever since Judge Woolsey's historic decision on Ulysses, the moneymakers have been trying to imbue pornography with "redeeming social value." Unfortunately, this usually makes for bad pornography and bad art...
...AFTERNOON in snatchland wasn't a total loss. I learned two new positions. Which brings us precisely to the point. As long as pornography must masquerade as art and display redeeming social value it will not be able to do what it can do best. What good pornography can do best, besides titillate, is educate. As long as public schools refuse to instruct people visually in the arts of sex, pornographic films will perform a vital function of introducing people to the appearance and interesting use of sexual organs...
During her years with the Fogg, Miss Mongan has been active with other college museums. She has served on the advisory council of the Colby College Museum of Art and on the visiting committees of the Smith College art Museum and the textile department of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Formerly, she was hairman of the visiting committee of the Wheaton College Art Department...
...associate member of the American Association of Art Museum Directors and was one of the founding members of the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. She is also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a trustee for the Chapelbrook foundation, and a Benjamin Franklin Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts...