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In seven pages this paper examines the exploitation of children for artistic purposes from a sociological perspective and makes reference to the recent controversy in Australia involving works of art featuring naked children. Six sources are listed in the bibliography.
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frolicking children adorning many of the Italian cathedrals, most notably the Donatellos work that is featured in Florences Museo dell Opera del Duomo. At the time, these symbols were
regarded as synonymous with purity and innocence. According to Christopher Fultons article on the Florentine Renaissance, "The citys youth represented the hope for the future," and how they were
depicted "reflected the citys moral condition" (Barcan 93). But as civilizations grew more civilized, the art works featuring naked women and children once embraced as public representations of civic
beauty were now being condemned as obscene. An obvious example is the scandalous furor associated with Edwin Landseers painting of Lady Godiva that resonated throughout Victorian England in the
mid-nineteenth century (Barcan 89). However, this is not to imply that portraits and photographs of nude children ceased completely; it simply moved into the private domain. Lewis
Carroll, author of Alice in Wonderland, was well known in artistic circles for his portraits of naked girls, and high society delighted in portraits of nude children, with members of
the British royal family even posing for such sittings back in the 1920s and 1930s (Barcan 91). But public displays of nude children as art continued to be deemed
socially inappropriate, which is why several photographers of note were the subjects of civic debate such as when American artist Tierney Gearon featured photographs of her naked children in a
2001 exhibition (Marks). Another American photographer, Betsy Schneider, found herself at the center of a media storm in 2004 when naked photographs of her naked daughter from birth to
the age of five were exhibited in a show at east Londons Spitz Gallery that was promptly closed in response to widespread outrage (Marks). In May 2008, police confiscated
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