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telophase ([personal profile] telophase) wrote2006-11-17 10:59 am
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Via MangaBlog: the Museum of Sex in New York City has an exhibition up titled "Peeping, Probing, and Porn: Four Centuries of Graphic Sex in Japan," with an accompanying website, about sex in art and manga through the centuries.
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Now that you've clicked through and come back disappointed: yes, the web exhibit only has a few images with a little bit of text, and it's made more-or-less safe for work by putting the text on top of the more ... interesting parts of the artwork. :) There's a bit more information on the exhibit at the museum's website here, but I don't think there's an exhibit catalog for it. At least I couldn't tell from the REALLY ANNOYING ONLINE STORE (somewhat NSFW due to certain products, although the images in the menu are SO SMALL YOU CAN'T SEE THEM).
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[identity profile] wordsofastory.livejournal.com 2006-11-17 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey, I went to that! It was interesting, if really graphic and sort of made me want to giggle like a tweleve-year-old to be standing in this quiet, respectful musuem looking at tentacle porn.

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2006-11-17 05:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Academic porn is the best kind. XD

[identity profile] madame-manga.livejournal.com 2006-11-17 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Boy-o-boy, I could write a (lavishly illustrated) article on shunga using nothing but what I've got on my hard drive right now. This is MY kind of art history, speaking as a fine arts major. I don't collect the modern stuff, but there is almost nothing in the modern stuff that isn't prefigured in the ukiyo-e.

I saw an exhibit years ago at... I want to say the Legion of Honor in San Francisco... of "shocking" ukiyo-e. Exposed and interlocking genitalia? Tentacles? Pfff. Without the least exaggeration, we're talking hardcore bondage/torture/snuff, in beautifully crafted multicolor woodblock printing. Funny how persistent some of those cultural tropes can be...

[identity profile] keelieinblack.livejournal.com 2006-11-17 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow, you wouldn't think a place called the Museum of Sex would be so coy with the material, particularly when there are more (http://user.bahnhof.se/~secutor/ukiyo-e/guide.html) than (http://user.bahnhof.se/~secutor/ukiyo-e/edonoiki.html) enough (http://www.ukiyoe-gallery.com/) places (http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/ukiyo-e/major.html) to find decent ukiyo-e and shunga scans and info online already. Oh well, I suppose it's meant to get people to actually buy tickets.

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2006-11-17 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
They're a lot more likely to get the site featured in magazines and newspapers if it's not rated NC-17, which will get them needed publicity. Note that the exhibit's website is not actually part of museumofsex.com, which is probably part of that.
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