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an Italian street, and, perhaps the
most infamous, an AIDS-stricken
man on his deathbed, surround-
ed by his grieving family. "Ads
with a Conscience" includes many
of these images.
"Sufficient mediocrity is pro-
duced daily, particularly in the ad-
vertising world," Toscani told the
New York Times this past July.
He views it as his job to make peo-
ple stop and think.
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And Nawrocki counts himself
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among Toscani's many admirers.
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"I don't think I've installed any-
thing (in the exhibit) that I don't
At-
think works in some way," says
the gallery director, including the
two-page Benetton spread that
simply consists of the genitalia of
56 men and women — white and
black, young and old.
"I think it's there both to shock
and to convey a message that
we're all the same underneath,"
says Nawrocki, an associate pro-
fessor of art history at CCS.
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Sometimes, as the exhibit
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points out, what's actually being
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sold is unclear. It takes a sophis-
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ticated consumer to unravel the
satire and surrealism in the Diesel
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Many of the examples in the ex-
hibit use humor as a tool. "I sup-
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