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This 3 page paper discusses the 1999 “Sensation” art show at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and the issues it raised. It also gives a reaction to the show. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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legal battle as well. This paper describes the key points in the controversy, and gives a personal reaction to it. Discussion "Sensation" was designed to shock its audiences, and it
did, with works like "A Thousand Years" by Damien Hirst, "composed of flies, maggots, a cows head, sugar, and water; ... Marc Quinns, Self, a bust of the artist made
from nine pints of his frozen blood; and, most controversial, artist Chris Ofilis work titled The Holy Virgin Mary" (Holman, 1999). This last work is the one that was the
most controversial in the show; it pictured a black Madonna with her right breast fully exposed; she was surrounded by tiny depictions of female genitalia (Holman, 1999). Mayor Rudolph Giuliani
said that it was "anti-Catholic" and the city "acted to revoke the museums lease and remove its municipal funding unless it took down the show" (Holman, 1999). The artist of
this particular piece is Ofili, who, according to one critic, knows "exactly what he is doing: he is being a smart, young, knowledgeable British artist at the same time that
he is thrusting the cultural values of his own particular ethnic background in the face of the public" (Nochlin, 1999). Nochlin finds his stuff "winning rather than off-putting," noting that
he is an "equal-opportunity elephant-dung employer," using it to make supports for his works, or to "stand for flying objects in space in the aptly named Spaceshit of 1995" (Nochlin,
1999). Ofili also used dung to make the naked right breast of the Madonna, leading Nochlin, who is clearly a supporter of the show, to ask "And who says that
religious art shouldnt be a bit shocking? Why should it not, indeed, shock us out of our spiritual complacency, rather than lull us into it?" (Nochlin, 1999). She points out
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