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A Brief History of Testicle Art

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A Brief History of Testicle Art
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How does one write an art history of testicle-shaped disco balls? Does one begin with the most recent iteration of disco balls and trace their way back, through the raucous hollers and blacklit rooms of a Southern Californian gay bar, and a fine-dining restaurant in Norway? Or does one draw a line from the first depictions of testicles in Paleolithic cave art to “the day disco died” in 1979 and the unrelated spate of humorous genital-themed art born in the decades since?They say no

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