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Do you, as a former resident of New York City, miss the great headline-writing abilities of the staff of the New York Post ? They have an editorial today about the Brooklyn Museum of Art's Giuliani-opposed exhibition of young British artists headlined "One Stink-ular Sensation," a reference, as I'm sure you know, to Chris Ofili's use of elephant dung, among other media, in his painting of the Virgin Mary.
Do the medieval artists use the imagery in the way Ofili did?
One can imagine ironic or otherwise complex readings of these statements that might attempt to cleanse them of their offensive meaning, just as the Times attempts to cleanse the Virgin Mary canvas of its offensive meaning by quoting the artist, Chris Ofili, saying it all has something to do with his childhood confusion about the virgin birth.
On both counts, prewar anti-clericalism and postwar apocalyptic angst gave the Surrealists and Dubuffet, respectively, historic urgency lacking in the gratuitous neo-primitivism of Ofili.
Unless we want to argue that Ofili's art is about the loss of center that gives meaning to the kind of gestures he deploys.