"Our patience with all those who have not been able to fall in line
is at an end. ... What you are seeing here are the crippled products
of madness, impertinence, and lack of talent. ... I would need
several freight trains to clear our galleries of this rubbish. ...
This will happen soon"
Adolf Ziegler,1937
President of the Reich Culture Chamber
On March 20th, 1939, the Degenerate Art Commission ordered over one thousand paintings and almost four thousand watercolors and drawings burned in the courtyard of a fire station in Berlin. Other works were auctioned off to the highest bidder (see example below of the auctioning of Van Gogh's 'Self Portrait' which was sold to the winning bidder, a Dr. Frankfurter for $US 40.000 at Gallerie Fisher, an Auction House in Lucerne, Switzerland).
i'm not sure if you could put animal porn on the same level as art ;)
That´s difficult to judge indeed, but where is the border?
I agree on animal porn, because the animal can not be asked if it wants to take part in the action. The problem is that it´s not about animal porn only, it´s about "extreme" porn, whatever it is.
And after all, the provided arguments are the same.
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