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Art protest stunts: Vanguard or vandalism? ABC TV's The Art Of… reveals a more lax history than you'd expect

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Most of us find it hard to stomach seeing priceless artworks vandalised. But when we look back at the long history of attacking art in the name of protest, we seem to become far more lenient.

Art protest stunts: Vanguard or vandalism? ABC TV's The Art Of… reveals a more lax history than you'd expectWhen I asked visitors outside the National Gallery in London what they thought of protesters throwing soup at paintings or supergluing their hands to gallery walls, the response was overwhelmingly negative.

Slicing up oil paintings was just one of many militant tactics used by the suffragettes to draw attention to their demand: women's voting rights. "I have tried to destroy the picture of the most beautiful woman in mythological history," Richardson said, "as a protest against the Government for destroying Mrs Pankhurst, who is the most beautiful character in modern history".

As a well-known work bought for the British public using public donations, slashing the Rokeby Venus was sure to garner press attention.Instead, looking through our contemporary feminist binoculars, we see the artwork and the protester as symbolically tied to the issue of women's suffrage.

 

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