Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-89589-7 - On Scandal: Moral Disturbances in Society, Politics, and Art Ari Adut Index More information Index Abbott, Andrew, 292, 299 Aremberg, Walter, 272–3 ABC News, 127, 177, 218 Arendt, Hannah, 289, 310 Absinthe Drinker, 239 Armstrong, Lance, 16 Abstract Expressionism, 264–70, 274, art (general), affinities with scandal, 225; 277–8, 315, 317 art market, 247, 255, 278, 280–1, 318; abstraction, 254, 256–7, 259, 264–70, capitalism and, 233, 255–6, 278;asa 317 contested concept, 228; emotional Abu Ghraib Affair, 74, 126 element in, 228; indeterminacy of Adams, John, 88, 89, 186 meaning in, 232–4; institutionalist Adams, John Quincy, 186, 187–8 theories of, 281–2; moral ambiguity in, Adams, Sherman, 97–8 232–3; nudity in, 243–5;asa Adorno, Theodore, 230 self-fulfilling prophecy, 281; adultery, American politicians and, transgression in, 225–34 177–8; attitudes in France and U.S., art, contemporary, 271–86; crisis of the 178; attributed to Marie-Antoinette, art object 271–83; eclecticism of, 271; 182; of Beecher, 192–3; Carter and, installations, 274, 278; return to real, 208; of Clinton, 178, 203, 213–14;of 283–6; See also conceptual art Hamilton, 186; Jackson, 187;of art, modern, 238–171; the avoidance of Jefferson, 89; in literature, 41, 183;of decoration of, 258, 264, 268–70; Mike Bowers, 209; moral societies and, dissonance, 316; the formal 190; Victorian attitudes toward, 42 radicalization of, 254; the idea of Aestheticism, 69–70, 296 progress in, 271; intention and, 233–4, Agnew, Spiro, 102 270; intertextuality, 270;moral Alexander, Jeffrey, 291 ambiguity in, 249–50; radicalization Alfieris, Bruno, 270 of, 254; the rejection of mimesis of, All in the Family, 198 255–7, 265, 268, 269; the role of The American Dream Goes to Pot, 283 critics in, 269–70; subversive content ancient Greeks, 14, 185 of, 249–254; transgression and, 234–5, Andre,´ Carl, 226–7, 274, 278, 279 316; uncertainty in, 270;useof anticorruption, 105, 138–9, 147, 149, distortion in, 256–61;See also abstract 156, 168, 170, 303 expressionism, abstraction, cubism, anti-Semitism, 30–1 fauvism, impressionism, surrealism Apollinaire, Guillaume, 269 art scandal, 224–34; the decreasing appearances, 27, 42, 56, 59, 63, 72, 78, effects of, 230; emotional effect of, 85–6, 103–4, 119, 132, 171, 247, 248, 226–7; the ideational element of, 226; 297 motives in creating, 225;provocation Arbuckle, Roscoe “Fatty,” 195 in, 231–2; the public of, 226; shock in, 343 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-89589-7 - On Scandal: Moral Disturbances in Society, Politics, and Art Ari Adut Index More information index art scandal (cont.) Browning, Oscar, 45 228–30; the size of, 226; unintended Bruguire, Jean-Louis, 158 consequences of, 232–4 Buchanan, James, 309–10 Asquith, Herbert Henry, 50 Bunuel,˜ Luis, 251, 313 Austen, Jane, 292 Buren, Daniel, 270 automatism, 253, 265–6 Burgelin, Jean-Franc¸ois, 164 avant-garde ideology, 255 Burial at Ornans, 238, Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 69 Bacon, Francis, 261 Burr, Aaron, 96, 187 Balfour, Arthur, 63 Bush, George H. W., 123, 125, 284 The Ballad of Reading Gaol, 68 Bush, George W., 73, 85, 112, 122, Balladur, Edouard,´ 151, 155, 164, 307 125–7 Balthus, (Count Balthasar Klossowski de Rola), 249, 251, 267 cable television, 80, 198, 203 Baltimore, David, 29–30 Cadmus, Paul, 249, Balzac, Honorede,´ 143, 165 Callender, James, 186 Baudelaire, Charles, 238, 242 Canard Enchaine´, 169, 175 Bay of Pigs, 98 Cantaloube, Amed´ ee,´ 243 Beardsley, Aubrey, 69 Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da, Beasley, David, 209 234, 236–7 Becker, Howard, 130 Carco, Francis, 258 Beckett, Samuel, 307 Carignon, Alain, 151, 159, 163, 171 Beecher-Tilton affair, 192–3 Carrefour du developpement´ affair, 137, Bellows, George, 285 141, 144 Bennett, William J., 178 Carson, Edward, 49, 57–61, 64, 65 Ber´ egovoy,´ Pierre, 137, 151, 161, 164 Carter, Jimmy, 117, 118, 122, 208 Bergman, Ingrid, 197, 311 catastrophes, 15, 31 Bernstein, Carl, 100, 108 Cathedral, 267–8 Bible, 41, 184, 234 Catholic Church, allegations against, 24, Blackstone, William, 43 28, 29, 79, 176, 177, 178;causesof Blaine, James, 187 the abuse scandal, 201, 208;crusade blogs, 15, 80, 123, 203, against obscenity of, 196; defied by bodily waste, 226, 233, 251, 280, 282–3, Luther, 225; division between laity and 285–6 clergy, 280; public opinion about, 177; Boizette, Edith,´ 156, 158, 306 slant against, 29 Bokassa Diamonds scandal, 136 Cattlegate, 124 Bork, Robert, 102 CBS, 178, 201 Boucher, Franc¸ois, 244 celebrity culture, 292–3 Boulton and Park scandal, 46–7, 67 Censorship, 65, 95, 192, 194, 235, 286, Bourdieu, Pierre, 291 296 Bowers, Mike, 206 Cezanne,´ Paul, 256–61 (passim), 269, Boy Scouts, 202 314 Bradlaugh, Charles, 52 Chappaquiddick affair, 311 Brandeis, Louis, 193 charisma, 85, 94 Braque, George, 259 Cheney, Dick, 126 Brecht, Bertolt, 317 Chicago Tribune, 177 Bridge, Justice John, 64 Chirac, Jacques, 151–2, 159–60, 166, Brillo Box, 274–5, 279 168–71 passim, 173 Brinkley, David, 198 cinema, 256, 317 Brown, Helen Gurley, 204 civil disobedience, 231 344 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-89589-7 - On Scandal: Moral Disturbances in Society, Politics, and Art Ari Adut Index More information index civilizing process, 189, 310 223, 251, 254, 289; general discussion Civil War, 189, 190, 191 of, 23–31, 40, 55–7, 81; Clarke, Sir Edward, 57–8, 61, 67, 68 coordination costs, 19–20 Claretie, Jules, 243, 246 Corcoran Gallery of Art, 251 Clemenceau, Georges, 134 corruption, 8–9, 76–7; corruption Cleveland Street scandal, 44–6, 67–8 scandals in Europe, 76; corruption Cleveland, Grover, 87, 187 scandals in France during the 1980s, Clinton, Bill and the Lewinsky scandal, 9, 136–41; corruption scandals in France 11, 26, 27, 56, 84, 120, 175–80, 198, during the 1990s, 141–60;intheearly 199, 201, 203, 209–222, 312, 313; republic, 88; Eisenhower, 97;in general scandal activity of, 85, 117, France, 133–6;inItaly,115;and 123–4; and Gennifer Flowers, 203; Jefferson, 77; and Lincoln, 92;and impression management activities of, media, 77; prosecution of 132–5, 142, 122; and leaks, 106; media and, 122, 152–4, 160, 163; statistics in France, 124, 209; and Paula Jones case, 82, 129, 139; statistics in United States, 206, 209–222; and Whitewater, 10 76; and transparency; 119 Clinton, Hillary, 176 Cosmopolitan, 204 CNN, 203, 218 courage, 146, 230–2, 289 Coates, Robert, 267 Courbet, Gustave, 235, 236, 238, 245, Cocteau, Jean, 228, 229 314 Cold War, 93, 128 Cour des Comptes, 135, 169 collective responsibility, 25, 28, 30–1, Courroye, Philippe, 158–9, 170 132 Cox, Archibald, 101, 112 Collins, Gail, 89, 187, 194 Craig, Larry, 176 common knowledge, 19, 79 credence goods, 269 communication technology (advances in), Cresson, Edith,´ 152 123 Cronkite, Walter, 79 Comstock, Anthony, 191–3 Cuban missile crisis, 98 conceptual art, 226–7, 274–5, 279–80, Cubism, 258–9, 267, 315, 317 283 confessional culture, 207 Daily Mirror, 227 Confidential, 196 Daily Telegraph, 63, 67 Congress, U.S., declining power of, 93, Dali, Salvador, 251, 253–4, 271, 313 95; divided government and scandal, Danto, Arthur, 318 83–4; impeachment efforts in Davenas, Laurent, 162, 307 nineteenth century, 90–2;in19th De Gaulle, Charles, 134, 309 century, 86; oversight activities after De Kooning, Willem, 261–2, 265–6 Watergate, 121–2; oversight powers of, De Profundis, 53 82; polarization within, 121; treatment Dean, John, 101, 110–1 of Lincoln, 92–3; surveillance of The Death of Sardanapalus, 244 presidents by, 121 The Death of the Virgin, 236 conservatives, 70, 84, 90, 175, 178, 179, Deep Throat, 78, 107–8 181, 199, 201, 203, 207, 223, 266, defamation, in English history, 45;in 267, 283 France, 220; laws in United States, 78, conspiracy, 30, 50, 54, 75, 100, 102, 180, 301 110, 123, 202, 221 Degas, Edgar, 246–7, 314 contamination, of associates, 24–5;of Le Dejeuner´ sur l’herbe, 2, 35, 36, audiences, 25–7; empirical instances of, 239–42 42–3, 58–66 passim, 69–71, 161, 170, Delacroix, Eugene,` 235, 38 175, 184, 185, 189, 198, 203, 221, Delaunay, Robert, 264 345 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-89589-7 - On Scandal: Moral Disturbances in Society, Politics, and Art Ari Adut Index More information index Delon, Alain, 309 ethics in government statute, 118, 119 DeMille, Cecil, B., 195 Evening News, 64, 67–8 democracy, in France, 134;in19th Evening Standard, 65 century United States, 87–9, 187, 191; executive privilege, 82–3, 96–7, 101–2, and political scandal, 75–7 114, 121–2, 125–6, 171 Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 228–9, 259, Expressionism, 257, 261 261, 273 denouncers, 9, 10, 15, 17, 34, 54, 56, 79, Fabius, Laurent, 306 131, 145–6, 162, 169, 171, 185, Fauvism, 258 231–2, 288–9, 292, 293, 304 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 78, denunciation, 12, 14–6, 20–1, 34, 54, 74, 96, 99, 100, 103, 107–8, 124, 194 81, 131, 145–6, 171, 185, 231 Feminism, and art, 232, 285;and depression, 95, 195–6 Clinton, 220, 313; politicization of sex Derain, Andre,´ 261 by, 181, 203–5, 207–8; and privacy, Desart, Lord, 43 204; and rape, 185; sexual harassment Diamond Necklace affair, 75–6, 182, 299 laws and, 208; the use of publicity by, Dinthillac, Jean-Pierre, 166, 171 207; Dondero, George, 266 Le Figaro, 179, 246 Douglas, Lord Alfred, affair with Wilde, Filegate, 124 49, 51–3, 59, 66; crusade against Ross, Finley, Karen, 232, 60–1, 168 Fitzgerald, F.