Show Americans and the Nude dude in Art r In Philadelphia t twelve l e years before I 1 the appearance of or the tho Atlantic a n few j casts from the antique cr created something something some some- thing very sery like a public scandal andt and andI t when at an nn earlier period Greenough's Greenough's Green Green- ough's Chanting Cherubs the tho first I I group ro by an nn American sculptor was wasI I exhibited a storm of oC condemnation enveloped eloped the undraped fI figures nude 11 I l babies were familiar in American om l homes s but their appearance in public shocked hoc ed the moral sense of or tho the whole i. i community This was In New York wh whore where re still earlier gentlemen n who A. A V t lived d by hy piracy hn had been beon influential members of oC society The symbolism of or t. t Pow Powers rs Greek Slave e and the tho JH passionate passion ute ate sympathy with tho the Greek Greel struggle tru j. j for freedom diverted attention from the nudity of oC tho fI figure ur to the tho pathos 11 It Jt expressed 8 but hill it iL wa was thought nrc s- s sary san In the interests of or public morals that the fair captive e should bo be examined ex examined ex- ex by a committee of experts Accordingly Accordingly Accordingly Ac Ac- cordingly of clergymen In Cin CIn- CIncinnati Cincinnati sat as a n. jury jur and after a critical critical cal examination of the tho issued a n kind of or license for COI purposes of or c exhibition The humor of submitting the statue to the Inspection of a n com cont- milleo of oC clergymen does not seem t to have occurred to any save e a few fe Americans who had hall been corrupts corrupted ll by by familiarity with foreign galleries nor nOI does any anyone one appe appear ar to have ha re- re realized re realized that thal the the- thereal real immorality wa was not in the timid slave but in the tho public pub pull lie lic opinion hailed her hel effigy g a athe as the greatest work of oC art In lh the tho history of or the world |