Pollex Christi Pollex Christi Pollex Christi ("The Thumb of Christ") was the first of Ralph America's limited edition CDs by the Residents. It is thought to be a solo studio project by the band's keyboardist and main composer Hardy Fox. The 20-minute synthesizer piece is made up entirely of quoted material, mostly works by famous German composers, including Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and Orff's Carmina Burana, with a few American television show tunes added in. The piece was purportedly composed by the friend and collaborator from their early years, N. Senada, and in some ways plays on classical themes the same way their
Censoring the Body of the human body on the one hand (such as the depiction of naked men hidden behind objects such as large taps) or, alternatively, to delight in it (such as the tradition of using classical mythology as a mechanism to create representations of naked femininity). Lucie-Smith also explores the contemporary world of aesthetics and related ethics, discussing the way that photography has altered our perceptions of artworks relating to the body, and led to a general anxiety over photographs of juvenile bodies in ways that similar painted portraits would not have struck people in the Renaissance as being problematic. His