[rollei_list] Re: OT Mapplethorpe (was Re: Re:)
- From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:54:56 -0500
At 07:46 PM 3/7/2010, Matthew Phillips/HSC/VCU wrote:
Interesting point of view. Utterly wrong
historically, but certainly reinforces the usual conservative talking points.
Well, my source is the testimony presented to
Congress in a eries of Hearings. I would not be
surprised to learn that the NEA told fibs to
Congress. But the NEA claimed they paid
Mapplethorpe during his life and purchased prints
from his estate after his death. So, if this is
"utterly wrong historically", it is because the
NEA can't get their facts right.
This was not a conservative talking point,
incidentally: conservatives in the US abandoned
all regard for the NEA decades back and expected
no less. The storm of protest came from
mainstream (that is, liberal to
far-left) churches. The conservatives pretty
much sat this out while the NEA crawled to the
Churches. I cannot recall a single conservative
politician who spoke up on the matter, and even
Rush Limbaugh blew it off with, "what else could you expect from the NEA?"
Marc
msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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