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janterry

(4,429 posts) Thu Oct 7, 2021, 11:17 AM Oct 2021

Italian Statue of Scantily Clad Worker Draws Controversy: An 'Offense to Women' [View all]

The latest public monument to draw a bitter outcry is a sexually suggestive statue of a female field worker in Italy, which was accused of promoting sexism by politicians this week.

The bronze statue, which depicts a young woman wearing a transparent, body-hugging dress, was presented on Saturday in a ceremony attended by a mostly male audience, including former prime minister Giuseppe Conte, in the city of Sapri, in Italy’s southern Campania region. Created by sculptor Emanuele Stifano, it is a tribute to the 19th-century poem “La Spigolatrice di Sapri” (The Gleaner of Sapri) by Luigi Mercantini, which tells the story of Carlo Pisacane, an early socialist thinker who led a failed attempt to liberate the Bourbon Kingdom of Naples.

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https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/sapri-italy-monument-sexism-allegations-1234605053/

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Italian Statue of Scantily Clad Worker Draws Controversy: An 'Offense to Women' [View all] janterry Oct 2021 OP

Artistically, I find that pretty amazing to have portrayed in bronze and very lifelike. hlthe2b Oct 2021 #1

It's weird. There's no way to know she works in the field. jimfields33 Oct 2021 #3

Ugh. That's the message the artist thought embodied the worker? Budi Oct 2021 #2

Yes, someone needs to get some clothes on that woman. Irish_Dem Oct 2021 #4

he says if it were his choice, she would have been naked janterry Oct 2021 #5

I think Ashcroft has a line on where to buy curtains... ret5hd Oct 2021 #6

if it was roman/greek from antiiquity ppl would be celebrating it nt msongs Oct 2021 #7

ironic that so many hundreds of years later, janterry Oct 2021 #8

If that were the focus of the rendering, yes, I would. It was not, but rather to show a farm laborer hlthe2b Oct 2021 #9