http://www.art.msu.edu/?page_id=423Ok, so technically there's nothing that violates campus policy about having one of Guthrie's current students volunteer to pose apparently naked under a sheet as Lucretia being raped by Tarquin. (And to be fair, we don't actually know who posed for that one).
But maybe without the constraint of campus policy, Guthrie could simply decide that maybe it's not a great idea to involve any currently enrolled students -- male or female -- in his photography. Just because it's, you know, creepy.
This:
In the last couple of decades many female artists have investigated the personal landscape of their sexuality, as a means to seize control of their own representation within a culture milieu whose imaging of women has a long track record of idealization and exploitation. Taking my cue from this work, through direct and indirect references to classical painting and photography, my intent is to acknowledge these various traditions and debates, twisting and blurring the codes of classical aesthetics, contemporary rhetorically motivated art, and even erotica," he wrote.
. . . induces significant eye-rolling, I'm afraid ("Hey, if I'm inspired by feminists, that makes my work totally ok, right?")
I find his photographs otherwise very dull and narcissistic.
