{"id":14777,"date":"2010-08-05T12:32:14","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T16:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=14777"},"modified":"2010-08-05T12:32:14","modified_gmt":"2010-08-05T16:32:14","slug":"mature-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/08\/05\/mature-content\/","title":{"rendered":"Mature Content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/08\/notsafeforwork.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14778\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/08\/notsafeforwork.jpg\" alt=\"notsafeforwork\" width=\"384\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/08\/notsafeforwork.jpg 640w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/08\/notsafeforwork-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow is Andy Warhol&#8217;s birthday, and last week I started putting together a post to commemorate it.\u00a0 People tend to forget that Warhol for five whole years made nothing but movies, which, even today are exhilerating in their wonder and freshness and the challenge they offer.\u00a0 One critic has noted that, for the first time, thanks to Warhol&#8217;s films, we, the viewers of art, are allowed to see as a painter sees, in real time.<\/p>\n<p>Their subject matter, of course, is often iconoclastic.\u00a0 The clip I opted to post is from the starkly titled <em>Blow Job<\/em>, which does not really capture the actual experience of the film, even if it accurately describes what is being very cleverly depicted without actually showing it.<\/p>\n<p>That got me thinking about Frye and the issue of obscenity and &#8212; coincidentally coming across a clip I wanted to post in our regular TGIF comedy slot that is as obscene as it is hilarious &#8212; that led to a series of related posts on the subject of the artistic relevance of obscenity with Frye acting as our guide the entire time.<\/p>\n<p>All that tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow is Andy Warhol&#8217;s birthday, and last week I started putting together a post to commemorate it.\u00a0 People tend to forget that Warhol for five whole years made nothing but movies, which, even today are exhilerating in their wonder and freshness and the challenge they offer.\u00a0 One critic has noted that, for the first time, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[24,113,139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comedy","category-obscenity","category-satire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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