Word: depictions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Censorship!" in order to discredit the concept of moral standards in art. Four artists whose grant applications to the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) were recently rejected have filed a lawsuit against the organization's "decency code," which forbids the funding of works of art and literature that depict homosexuality or the erotic. They claim that the code was the reason for their rejection and that it sets an unconstitutional limit on freedom of expression...
Women are the only subjects in the portrait genre. Significant settings or texts often emphasize their traits or potential. In contrast to the tradition of their genre, these portraits possess political relevance. In refusing to depict women as sexual commodities, the works stand in marked contrast to prevailing media imagery...
...particularly worthy example is the photographs by Laura Aguilar from the Latina Lesbian Series. The stark straight-forward shots of women are contextualized by scrawled self-descriptions by the subject. These images and their accompanying text celebrate the achievements and strength of the women they depict...
...find Mark N. Templeton's selective memory extremely troubling. In his February 11 article ("This Is Funny?") he failed to recall any of the allusions to Blacks which comprised at least half my routine. Instead, he chose to depict my performance as nothing more than vitriolic "attacks" directed against Asians and women...
...exhibit deserves attention for a uniformly high quality of the pieces and the juxtaposition of Rembrandt with other artists of the period who depict similar themes...