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Unidentified photographer/creator
A thermoplastic CDV viewer
n.d.
Archives of Modern Conflict OR National Gallery of Canada
LL/9963
A thermoplastic viewer. The standing view is a CDV of The Greek Slave. This sculpture by Hiram Powers was perhaps the most popular and controversial American work of art of the Nineteenth Century. Over one hundred thousand people paid to see it during its 1847-1848 tour around the country. The statue was represented as being a beautiful young woman on sale as a sexual object, whose purity was so strong that even this humiliation left her untouched. Some critics said it was pure pornography while the supporters said it was a strong positive spiritual statement. Of course, the CDV in the base storage area is of Hiram Powers, the artist.
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