‘PEOPLE ARE PICKING THE DUMBEST FIGHTS’: THE TORTURED HISTORY OF AMERICA’S CULTURE WARS

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In a new book, Isaac Butler goes back to the 1980s to trace how battles started against the arts, from Piss Christ to Mapplethorpe, and looks at what we can learn for today Isaac Butler is limbering up for an event at… They variously depict: a logo from his grandparents’ company in the 1960s; a satellite that his father worked on at Nasa; a “jaunty crab” for his wife, who finds crabs “hilarious”; an iris by Japan’s Utagawa Hiroshige…

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Topic: CULTURE — the feed headline centres on PEOPLE, PICKING, DUMBEST, FIGHTS, TORTURED.
Original feed: Culture | The Guardian.
Published: 15 Jul 2026, 10:00 UK.
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Culture | The Guardian: In a new book, Isaac Butler goes back to the 1980s to trace how battles started against the arts, from Piss Christ to Mapplethorpe, and looks at what we can learn for today Isaac Butler is limbering up for an event at…
Culture | The Guardian: They variously depict: a logo from his grandparents’ company in the 1960s; a satellite that his father worked on at Nasa; a “jaunty crab” for his wife, who finds crabs “hilarious”; an iris by Japan’s Utagawa Hiroshige…

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