Reuters: Hillary Clinton Busts Out at Museum of Sex

[The Sushi Bandit]

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Reuters reports the bust is the creation of sculptor Daniel Edwards, who hopes it will spark discussion about sex, politics and celebrity. He likes to create controversy. He's the one who made the life-size nude of Britney Spears giving birth on a bear-skin rug. This time he said he wanted to capture Sen. Clinton's age and femininity in the sculpture. He also captured some political controversy by naming it "The Presidential Bust of Hillary Rodham Clinton: The First Woman President of the United States of America." The sculpture "The Presidential Bust of Hillary Rodham Clinton: the First Woman President of the United States of America" sits on display at the Museum of Sex in New York August 9, 2006. Artist Daniel Edwards claims to have been inspired to make the piece after actress Sharon Stone said Clinton could never be president because she is a sexual being.

The sculptured bust of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton now on display in a New York City museum gives new meaning to the word "bust." It's billed as a "presidential bust" and it prominently displays, well, her bust. This is no ordinary museum, either. It's the Museum of Sex.

The sculpture shows the senator smiling with soft wrinkles framing her eyes. Oddly, a floral pattern is engraved across her breasts, which Edwards says is his way of presenting Clinton "as a woman--not a covered-up person, but as a woman." He told Reuters, "I didn't want to give her a face lift or change her age. The key was to reveal her chest a little bit. She usually covers herself up, but I don't think that's necessary." Not surprisingly, Sen. Clinton's office had no immediate comment.

[rurallib]

1. Nice tatas - did he use Lewinski as the model for them?

[DeadManInc]

2. He forgot the nipples

[vixengrl]

3. Just as an aesthetic comment--

the neck doesn't seem right. I think it may be a little too long--somewhat manneristic, actually, and sadly, on the stringy side. In comparison to the face, the nipple-less breasts seem incongruously bouyant--artificial. I think I grasp the intent--we would need to wrap our heads around the notion of a President as also being a person who could lactate, for example, were we to except a female in the office. To which, I very well may have to say, "duh."

The piece suggests "gender" rather than "sex" I think, unless I have read too much into it. The face is stern, the bosom--too smooth and round to suggest nurturing or even femininity. Perhaps he had no fifty-something models from which to copy. I do not exactly dislike it, but it is unsettling--shall we exhibit a display of patriarchal presidential pelvi? To remind us our presidents were actually male?

[The Sushi Bandit]

4. I agree that the neck is toooo long

and that as you mentioned too much contrast between the top and bottom of the sculpture. I think that was the artists intent. Contrast!