Artistic provocation decades later collides with changed moral standards

Evidence

Jodorowsky’s insistence on El Topo’s verisimilitude came back to haunt him decades later in 2019 when his claim to have raped the actress Mara Lorenzio on camera resulted in the cancellation of a planned retrospective at El Museo del Barrio in New York. Asked for a statement, he explained that his boast was a matter of “words not facts”: “Surrealist publicity in order to enter the film world from a position of obscurity.” — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 2042

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: what made El Topo-era provocations acceptable then and not now — is it the same shift in moral regime that the book documents as the scene became a market?
• XREF: connects to: Fine art and counterculture worlds merged in 1990s AIDS-era memorial performance — Dolores DeLuce, Blow Jobs: A Guide to Making It in Show…, 209