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Leland Torrence wrote:

> Esteemed Researcher,
>
> What is “phallic authority?
>
> Signed: Not In My Phalanx.
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> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 29, 2007 11:36 AM
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> *Subject:* [BP] What our scholars are thinking, part 264, section 12-A.
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> From an article in Winterthur Portfolio, Spring 200):
>
> //This article discusses a patronage dispute that arose between John 
> D. Rockefeller Jr. and sculptor George Grey Barnard during the 
> completion of the Adam and Eve Fountain (finished in 1923) on the 
> Rockefeller estate in Pocantico Hills, New York. Rockefeller demanded 
> under contract that Adam's penis be covered by a cloud, while Barnard, 
> through various means, including unapproved work on the statue, 
> resisted this stipulation. This confrontation centers on a broadly 
> sketched gender analysis of the Rockefeller family's dealings with 
> art, on the contentious hierarchical relationships these art dealings 
> highlighted, and on the artist, Barnard. The article concludes that 
> the penis question was not incidental to Rockefeller Jr.'s position as 
> the legal guardian of the fountain contract but symbolically and 
> psychologically lay at the very heart of his determination to exercise 
> "phallic" authority as the patron.//
>

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