"clickbait" Alert (Adult Content)

ADULT CONTENT

This page is a portal to a number of pages that address the use of images as "clickbait", sourced from a spectrum that runs from art to pornography.

For ADULT CONTENT this project adopts a policy that follows the Wikipedia:Profanity guideline. 

Wikipedia:Pornography

This page documents some of the discussions the Wikipedia community have had regarding matters related to pornography. While there is no formal policy, the Wikipedia:Profanity guideline has the advice:

"Words and images that would be considered offensive, profane, or obscene by typical Wikipedia readers should be used if and only if their omission would cause the article to be less informative, relevant, or accurate, and no equally suitable alternatives are available. Including information about offensive material is part of Wikipedia's encyclopedic mission; being offensive is not."

. . . and so it is with this blog.

This blog uses images to explore information relating to particular places, by way of documentation and/or illustration. There is also a value in the inclusion of imagery in articles accessible on the internet that form part of the Information Wrap you are accessing NOW. For example:

"clickbait" & the use of Art and/or Pornography

Abduction!

This image, a painting by Évariste-Vital Luminais  is used in an article published by History Ireland, Ireland's History Magazine, in May/June 2009. The title of Luminais' painting is "Norman Pirates in the 9th century". He is best known for works depicting early French history, and so the type of subject matter Luminais chose for his painting, along with many other historical subjects, led to the artist being sometimes called "the painter of the Gauls".

Slave Traders 

The article in History Ireland is headlined The Viking slave trade: entrepreneurs or heathen slavers?, and is referenced in a Cargo of Questions page in the Ceatharlach Information Wrap - Arrivals.

The relationship of the LODE Re:LODE project to information remains critical and questioning, hence the requirement to contextualise the presenting of such information and imagery in this way.

So, this page addresses the use of imagery as "bait" in the particular information environments encountered in the LODE Re:LODE art project under the heading:

"clickbait" Alert

An example of the kind of Adult Content included:

This is a photo of the public display of an artwork in a museum. The artwork is called L'Origine du monde ("The Origin of the World") and is a picture painted in oil on canvas by the French artist Gustave Courbet in 1866. It is a close-up view of the genitals and abdomen of a naked woman, lying on a bed with legs spread. The framing of the nude body, with head, arms and lower legs outside of view, emphasizes the eroticism of the work.

The museum that displays this work is the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, France. The Musée d’Orsay, which has held the painting since 1995, says on its website that the work “escapes pornographic status” thanks to “Courbet’s great virtuosity and the refinement of his amber colour scheme”.

If you are over 18 years of age and agree to consider the Adult Content included as part of the LODE Re:LODE Information Wrap then "click" on this link.