Keith Johnson, Anthropologie's gallery director, said he decided to mount the show after purchasing several pieces of work by Ms. Lété.
His books and articles appear across university reading lists in history, sociology and science studies – they're engaged with and appreciated and argued with in hundreds of pieces of work by scholars all over the world.
After the Daily Mail coined the display as "gay pornography", the tension reached fever pitch when CSG chose to pull three pieces of work by the internationally renowned artist Dani Marti.
Does the mere act of collecting disparate pieces of work by the same author within the confines of a single book mean we should hold them to a higher, or different, standard than the one we would apply if we picked up a yellowed copy of the magazine they originally appeared in?
Brilliant artists, and many of world's greatest creators have often manifested profound pieces of work by channeling their pain towards a higher cause.
