SF Chronicle: Painting of U.S. in toilet raises GOP hackles: Attorney general asked to remove work.

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | July 20, 2005 | Greg Lucas

[Antioch]

A painting of the United States sinking into a toilet now on display in the cafeteria of the state Department of Justice has raised the ire of the state Republican Party, which is demanding that Attorney General Bill Lockyer remove the image.

The painting -- part of an exhibit of more than 30 works by lawyer artists and pieces with overt legal themes -- has an American flag-painted continental United States heading into a toilet. Next to it are the words: "T'anks to Mr. Bush."

The artist, Stephen Pearcy, a Berkeley lawyer with a house in Sacramento, won earlier notoriety for hanging an effigy of an American soldier on the outside of his home here with a sign saying "Bush lied, I died." Angry residents tore the effigies down.

"I don't know why we need to tolerate the cheap artwork of a gadfly with a world view that is so offensive to a majority of the people," said Karen Hanretty, a spokeswoman for the California Republican Party.

[GoldwaterChick]

In The Death of Right and Wrong, author Tammy Bruce destroys the myth of "homosexual art" as just another name for really bad art. I think that's where I had my own theory of "garbage" validated.

Now a photo of Dick Durbin, John Kerry or Ted Kennedy being flushed==that's REAL art! :) No doubt the ACLU would step in somewhere altho they'll probably be busy over in London defending these 4 bombers pictured today the minute they are caught.

[Antioch]

Apart from a few small islands of creativity here and there, art pretty much died after WWI. The majority of it today is an absurd, depressing hoax which should sink to the stygian depths without the benefit of lifeline from the public purse.
(That's what my 4 years in art school hammered home :)