The writer, screenwriter and journalist Dan Greenburg (Fig.1), was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1936, and is known worldwide for having published more than 70 books that address children's adventures, horror, suspense and satire, as well as numerous articles published in magazines, such as to Playboy. Among his bestselling books are How to Be a Jewish Mother, How to Make Yourself Miserable, Love Kills, Exes, and How to Avoid Love and Marriage.
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Nudes Covered With Moving Parts
His son, Zack O'Malley Greenburg, the offspring of his second marriage to Suzanne O'Malley, inspired the children's book series, The Zack Files. In 1965, Greenburg published the satire How to Be a Jewish Mother, which became his best-selling book and allowed him to become a full-time writer. In 1969, Dan Greenburg published Porno-Graphics: The Shame of Our Art Museums, a book of reproductions of famous paintings from art history with nudes covered with moving parts.
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Ironizing It Through Exaggeration
In an interview with AbeBooks, Greenburg said: “At the time, I was amused by all the people who were being offended by anything slightly sexual. Usually when something sexual is covered up, it becomes more sexual. I thought it was funny. I had already had some success with a couple of books and Random House said to me 'what else can you do?'" Dan Greenburg's strategies for criticizing censorship are precisely the principles that govern it: hiding what, for a given group of people, cannot be seen. So, the author appropriates the conservative and moralizing discourse, while ironizing it through exaggeration: “we have reproduced some famous nude paintings on the following pages along with removable articles of clothing over them, so you can compare the same pictures both dressed and undressed and decide for yourself which way looks better, and so you can decide for yourself whether you would rather have an impressionable young person enter a public art museum and look at pictures of nice people with clothes on and afterwards go into the museum cafeteria for some milk and cookies or whether you'd rather have him look at a bunch of lascivious paintings of degenerate sex-starved naked people and afterwards go into the museum cafeteria and smoke a reefer and Utamaro and Eiri are the ones depicted below. Let’s take a closer at these extraordinary examples of Utamaro and Eiri are the ones depicted below. Let’s take a closer at these extraordinary examples of Utamaro and Eiri are the ones depicted below. Let’s take a closer at these extraordinary examples of Utamaro and Eiri are the ones depicted below. Let’s take a closer at these extraordinary examples of Utamaro and Eiri are the ones depicted below. Let’s take a closer at these extraordinary examples of Utamaro and Eiri are the ones depicted below. Let’s take a closer at these extraordinary examples of Utamaro and Eiri are the ones depicted below. Let’s take a closer at these extraordinary examples of Utamaro and Eiri are the ones depicted below. Let’s take a closer at these extraordinary examples of Utamaro and Eiri are the ones depicted below. Let’s take a closer at these extraordinary examples of Utamaro and Eiri are the ones depicted below. Let’s take a closer at these extraordinary examples of Utamaro and Eiri are the ones depicted below. Let’s take a closer at these extraordinary examples of Utamaro and Eiri are the ones depicted below. Let’s take a closer at these extraordinary examples of rape art… Plate 9 from.." the kindly old lady behind the cash register”.
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