Moral values against contemporary art

In the year 2000, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Bordeaux organised an exhibition entitled, 'Presumed innocent - Contemporary art and childhood' that was subsequently attacked by an association for the protection of childhood. Six years later, Henry-Claude Cousseau, the director of the museum up until 2001, has been taken to court for 'the distribution of paedo-pornographic images'. The editorialist Gerard Dupuy considers that, "moral leagues have developed a strategy of judicial dissuasion regarding the forms of expression that displease them. ... Contemporary artists living in France are in an uncomfortable situation. They have the greatest difficulty getting themselves heard beyond the specialist spaces that they are allocated. Even there, some would wish to gag them, resorting if needs be to calumny. Not all the Taliban have stone Buddhas at their disposal. Sometimes they don't even wear a beard either."

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