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CHEESECAKE

                                         Dec  2, 2012

    Once upon a time, I saw a
    movie where an artist (played
    by someone like Montgomery or
    Young) is showing off his
    means of livelihood to a
    woman visiting his studio: he         In the Theodore Sturgeon
    glorifies the female form in          story, "To Here and the
    the medium of *cheesecake*.           Easel", an artist briefly
                                          considers indulging in
    A commercial hack, with a             cheesecake as a way around
    certain perverse pride in             his artist's block-- but he
    what he does...                       remains stuck, for reasons
                                          he has trouble pinning down.


                       As with burlesque... a layer
                       of irony, a retro veneer, a
                       standardize toybox of risque.
                       Acceptable to pervs who want
                       to be straight.                  Or vice-versa? 


   Cheesecake is used as a central
   example in Greenberg's
   "Avant-garde and Kitsch" (1939):

           [link]

   Cheescake as a devolved form of the
   artistic nude, kitsch as the devolved
   form of avant-garde.







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