Robert Hughes Quote

Machines were the ideal metaphor for the central pornographic fantasy of the nineteenth century, rape followed by gratitude.


The Shock of the New (1981)


Machines were the ideal metaphor for the central pornographic fantasy of the nineteenth century, rape followed by gratitude.

Machines were the ideal metaphor for the central pornographic fantasy of the nineteenth century, rape followed by gratitude.

Machines were the ideal metaphor for the central pornographic fantasy of the nineteenth century, rape followed by gratitude.

Machines were the ideal metaphor for the central pornographic fantasy of the nineteenth century, rape followed by gratitude.