CS251 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Chris Ofili, Andres Serrano, Piss Christ
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Discourse knowledge or representation around an activity or object that comes to be known as the truth. Ex: discourse between universities and colleges, homosexuality, sexuality, etc. Once people become mobile, it"s hard to discipline and keep track of people. No way out of the discourse, only way to counter the discourse is through another discourse. When you make policies, you decide whats normal, whats acceptable. A photographer, the photographs had erotically charged photographs. Cover photo had a flower with an erotic connotation with it. Many photos of men nude, engaged in acts of sexuality. Photo of a little girl, under 5, sitting innocently on a bench in a garden, had her leg up, wearing a dress and no underwear. Mapplethorpe sponsored by nea, grant giving institution. After this exhibit, policy makers got annoyed, thought people shouldn"t get grants to put on exhibits like this.
