October 19 Toronto The seven-member […]

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1980-10-19

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October 19 Toronto The seven-member Gallery Committee of the Pauline McGibbon Cultural Centre resigned in the wake of controversy over the exhibit "Women's Images of Men," which was shown at the centre from September 18 to October 19, 1980. The centre's Board of Directors had received complaints about drawings and lithographs of male nudes by artists Diane Pugen and Claire Weissman Wilks; two homoerotic images by Weissman Wilks drew the most criticism. The Gallery Committee members resigned after the Board of Directors issued demands that were seen as undermining the committee's artistic freedom and autonomy.

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Toronto

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Claire Weissman Wilks Diane Pugen

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Women's Images of Men

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"Mary Meigs, "'Pagan Wholeness and Holiness of Bodies,' " Body Politic, no. 73 (1981), pp. 22–23.Jacques Larouche, "Censure dans une galerie d'art," Le Berdache, no. 17 (1981), p. 16 "Art Committee Resigns over Censored Erotica," Body Politic, no. 69 (1980–81), p. 16

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