Posts by Emma Hart
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Even now they have almost finished cutting this country free from the continental shelf, after which the South Island will be towed forcibly northwest past PNG to be used as a readymade miltary land-bridge for the invasion of Taiwan.
So... better weather then?
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I understand he spends a fair amount of time in Being Human stark ballocks naked, for entirely legitimate plot reasons
Within three minutes of the first episode starting. I just went to the folder labelled "Russell" and checked.
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As an advanced, albeit small, first world nation with huge sea frontiers New Zealand is ideally placed to benefit from defensive advances in modern robot weaponry.
I just want to mark this as the point where I started laughing out loud.
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The preconception that the Victorians had issues with the male nude is largely a reflection of contemporary prejudice against the Victorians.
Paul, did you read the links I provided? Or are you saying VictorianWeb.org is prejudiced against the Victorians?
Despite its mythological anchoring, Burne-Jones' depiction of a nude male was considered indecent, and resulted in the artist's resignation from the Society.
That article talks about a really complex idea of what was an acceptable depiction of a male nude and what wasn't. I find the criticism of Burne-Jones's Demophoön for not being masculine enough, at the same time as 'too sexy' really fascinating.
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Just as I'd love a pony and sexy quiet time with Russell Tovey.
I believe Lucy has a pony next to her fusion reactor.
And what is it with "you people" and Russell Tovey?! (Craig and I may have recently read the same book.)
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.This Lady often painted nudes as an example, of both sexes modelling.
Those are lovely. And the era in which she painted is pretty much where the male nudes in the exhibition reappear after their post-Renaissance absence.
This is, I think, the only time I've done a column like this without doing any research first. I didn't want my reading to colour, or indeed change, my own perceptions, what I'd seen. I don't have any art history, but I do have a pretty good grasp of Victorian social and lit history, and I struggle to think where you could have exhibited male nudes then, at least in England and the colonies.
So this morning I did a little reading and poking about, and found that as soon as I started looking for information about male nudes in art history, I was reading Gay History. But I found this and this interesting. (Some classic 'hide the sausage in the Burne-Jones, too.
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Does this mean we reinstate compulsory military service?
Full employment, dude. Take that, recession!
Of course, we may need some kind of island-based solution to the problem of the potentially "disloyal" NZ Chinese population. Survivor Soames, anyone?
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As for Pat Robertson, well that's a whole new kind of desperate, and it really isn't funny.
My first (coherent) thought was, wow, I can't wait to see Rachel Maddow get her teeth into this one.
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The picture of Mika in question - NSFW!
And that being the first link I've felt the need to label that way probably explains why it's not in this exhibition.
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Thanks for clarifying, George.
That's... any pictures of the Baby Jesus hanging in NSW art galleries?