Abramovich's girlfriend caught in racism row after posing on 'black woman' chair

I thought the same thing - of both of them, actually. The picture is degrading to the black woman, imo. I wondered why either of them thought it was a good idea to do the photo. But then, we all know money talks.

 

That's not an actual human. It's material carved to make it look like a black woman.

 

I suppose if you view it from an artistic perspective, it's really just a sub-genre form of eroticism, which...I'd say isn't really that tasteless if you look at it from that perspective. After all, the color contrast works well in that regard, even if it comes off as a bit too much.

But if it's meant to be just another form of art, then it's just tasteless. Then again, the theme behind this is virtually unclear.

 

I thought it was a real woman too, because I'd seen the same photo that Sirius Dogon posted in the Images thread, so I was going by that moreso than the article. I wondered what self-respecting BW would agree to that type of photo, (or WW, for that matter) so it makes more sense now.

Doesn't change the fact that it's degrading.

 

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It was in 1969 that British artist Allen Jones, a friend and contemporary of David Hockney at the Royal College of Art, designed a set of sculptures — a hat-stand, table and chair — all incorporating fibreglass models of submissive women (although they were white, not black) in skimpy leather outfits.

 

I agree with you to be frank. It's just that it's really rare to see black women in porn engaging in BDSM activity where the shock factor comes in, hence why I see people crying afoul. Still, it's art.

Yup. Yup. Yup. And there you have it folks!

 

Those stilettos might pierce your arms if you get your rage on.

 

Yeah, so as we see, it's basically just fetish art.(despite the original artist claiming it was to protest sexism).

Ironically, Stanley Kubrick wanted him to design the furniture for ACO, but he declined.

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...Mr Jones, was asked to make furniture for Stanley Kubrick's film A Clockwork Orange but turned him down.

The original: Allen Jones created 'Woman As An Armchair' in 1969. It was exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London and at the Tate.

His principal aim, he says, was to be iconoclastic. With sculpture as an art form having gone out of fashion by the Sixties, Jones wanted to revive it, but by using industrial materials. ‘My idea was to offend canons of art at the time.’

Yet he has admitted being motivated by other, somewhat less lofty, impulses than artistic radicalism. Part of the inspiration came from the sight of scantily clad women walking round London in mini-skirts and hot-pants.

Jones says: ‘I was living in Chelsea and I had an interest in the female figure and the sexual charge that comes from it. Every Saturday on the King’s Road you saw that skirts were shorter, the body was being displayed in some new way. The following week someone would up the ante.’..


...During the Sixties, his work became more and more sexually explicit, until his friend David Hockney observed that one of his paintings looked like an illustration to a fetishist magazine.

Jones, rather than feeling chastened, began collecting such magazines and his art became ever more focused on sex: women with whips, women in bondage wear, women with painted male genitalia superimposed across their torsos. :smt006

But he became frustrated that the curves of his fantasy women could not be adequately expressed on a flat canvas. So he decided to turn to sculpture, using modern, industrial materials rather than traditional clay or metal.


Six editions of three pieces of 'furniture' were produced and an entire set was bought by the German playboy Gunter Sachs.


..."The sculptures were cast in fibreglass by a company that produced mannequins for shop windows at a cost of £1,500 each. Their leather clothing was made by the same firm that supplied the skin-tight cat-suits worn by Diana Rigg as Emma Peel in the TV Series The Avengers.

They caused a storm of protest when they were first exhibited in 1970. Feminists, not surprisingly, took great exception to the way they objectified women, turning them into nothing more than a piece of furniture, something on which men could hang their hats or put their pint glass.


Fantasising about women as furniture is known to psychologists as forniphilia. The radical feminist magazine Spare Rib suggested Jones must be terrified of women and have a ‘castration complex’. :???:

When the sculptures were later exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, stink bombs and smoke bombs were thrown at them.


In 2012, Sachs’s art collection was auctioned at Sotheby’s, where the furniture set sold for £2.6?million, although Allen Jones received only £10,000 in royalties....

 

Bliss..so are you saying...confirming that this is fetish art? :smt043

 

In peasant-speak, that would be a 'ya' :smt025

 

lippy :smt049 YOU

 

Yet chose the black one. That wasn't a set up huh lol

 

Get off the faux-black soapbox. Not everything is tailored towards a negative agenda.

 

Eh, who cares.. one fool posing with another. That pic is degrading to that black woman, not black women.

Also, wasn't there another thread like this with some black guy posing in degrading pics of white chicks?

 

That's not a living black woman, it's a sculpture.

 

News flash: Idle rich person does something incredibly insensitive if not outright racist/offensive. Shocking!

 

Quiet young man it's fetish art duh

 

I know, but I've got to work my class-warfare angle in wherever I can.

 

Lol can't wait till that's a thing of the past. Been watching a lot of Star Trek and it makes me think its possible.

 

The class struggle will end as soon as they build those fabricator machines that synthesize your meal as soon as you place the order, lol.