Phelan “Money Talks;” Price, “Controlling Imagery;” and Perlstein, “Censorship on Stylistic Grounds”; and Stam and Shohat, “Patriotism, Fear, and Arti

Phelan
In this article he discusses Robert Mapplethorpe's exhibit in the Corcoran. Mapplethorpe's photos are very provoactive and because of this Congress had a big problem with them. Congress wanted to shut the exhibit down because they wanted to censor it. There was an issue of the Us grants being ceased because of this exhibit. Phelan talks about what artists should do so that a Mapplethorpe issue doesn't arise agian. He says they need to "think proactively" and allow the public to benifit from thier works. They could have disclaimers about provacative and potentially disturbing art, so that only those who have consented to viewing such works are allowed to.

Price
Price discusses Kosuth's exhibit "The Paly of the Unmentionable," in this article. Kosouth believes that self expression is something that shouldn't be controlled or ceonsored by society but embraced and taken in. His works were displayed with others to make part of a bigger whole that developed a meaning using the text surrounding the work as well as the works themselves.

Perlstein
Perlstein discusses censorship in this article. I feel like he examines both sides of censorship which is necessary because it is not only the reaction a work recieves from the public but it's other fellow artists and their works as well.
Humans are so sensitive to issues in today's world that we want to censor everything. So we pick and choose what to display and what not to, and it is only in those instances where someone finds something very offensive on display does it get put under the pressure of it potentially being censored.

Stam and Shohat
In this article Stam and Shohat discuss patriotism and how it effects people as well as how the country views it. What do you think patriotism is? Is it like they say: love for one's country?, love for the constitution?, Love for the people in your country? I think that it is all of these things that Stam and Shohat list. Patriotism is alot like art. There is no real meaning or definition, it is mainly focused on how the individual views it and sees it. Granted there is a general guideline for what patriotism is, but isn't there for art as well?