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In connection with Chris Ofili's painting [in her first Newsweek column], she invokes Joyce and Lawrence but fails to mention that neither was publicly funded.
Of course, we don't want to get caught up in the intentional fallacy, and a work of art of strength should be open to a variety of interpretations, but I think there's a danger of missing the plot (and incidentally patronizing African culture) if we deny Ofili's Madonna its subversiveness, iconoclasm, and sheer naughtiness.
I would like to say, flat-out, that it is not my fear of being looked down upon by the cultured folk of the 21 st century that drives me, cowering, to say that the Ofili painting doesn't to me look like an attack on religion, vicious or otherwise.
So, for instance, what is elephant dung in the context of Ofili's painting of a Nigerian Virgin Mary?
I like your suggestive angle on the negritude of Ofili's Madonna.