ROBERT MAPPLETHORPETHE PERFECT MOMENT, 1988

CENSORSHIP

PRESENTATION BY WONG LAI YI HEBE

X PORTFOLIORobert Mapplethorpe, Self-Portrait with Whip, 1977 Robert Mapplethorpe, Calla Lily, 1986

Y PORTFOLIORobert Mapplethorpe, Phillip Prioleau, N.Y.C., 1979

Z PORTFOLIO

PORN OR

ART?

PORN OR

ART?

PORN OR

ART?Robert Mapplethorpe, Man in Polyester Suit, 1980

PORN OR

ART?Robert Mapplethorpe, Jim and Tom, Sausalito, 1977

PORN OR

ART?Robert Mapplethorpe, Rosie, 1976

Show cancelled at the Corcoran Gallery of Art

12 June 1989 30 June 1989 July 1989

Artists protested at the Corcoran

Senator Jesse Helms proposed NEA restrictions

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