Puti-Porn
From Plastic Tub
Clandestine art movement of the 17th-Century which came to light in the mid-1960's during the ill-fated blackmailing of The League of Gnomes by The League of Men with Fancy Gloves.
The Puti-Porn Movement was an underground effort by the La Ligue d'Agenda de la Pinque in collaboration with rogue Jesuits in 17th-Century France that was characterized by the sexualization of cherubs and children. A cache of works from the movement were located in a Fancy Gloves delivery van after it had been pulled over for a routine traffic violation. In addition to the medium-sized collection of meticulously-painted oils and several small marble figurines of Satyrs sodomizing Seraphim were several immaculately bound volumes of extremely colourful prose typical of the era.
The "Puti-Porn Affair," as it has come to be known, is an intriguing episode in the long-standing feud between the Gnomes and The Fancy Gloves. Aside from a few Volumes concerning John P. Merriweather and the conflicting reports of Easton W. Wunderkidd what little known has quickly become apocryphal or fodder for newly-emerging conspiracy genres (see Strafe!). The story caught the public's eye briefly in the late 1950's when Murder and Mayhem visited an eccentric supporting cast of fashionable icons from the Modern Theory Movement. It is still largely unclear what actually happened. With its international settings and saucy subject matter the Puti-Porn Affair has become one of the most fantastic stories of the 1950's and 60's.
After the case was closed in 1967, the evidence room where the works were being stored was raided and the art disappeared in its entirety. Although only a few people have claimed to see the collection, the many polaroids being bandied about by conspiracy theorists are most assuredly fakes deployed to further obsfuscate the story and protect the orchestrators. The painting collection is rumored to be hidden somewhere in South America deep in the legally spotless and fantastically wealthy estate of Christopher Andrews Stephenson III and his late wife Maria Madrid Mantu, although official audits turn up nothing. (Some tabloids have also spread rumors that the collection is housed at Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch, but one would suspect this would have turned up during his recent legal struggles). Sympathetic groups within the movement are still certain that the collection has fallen back into hiding until the Gnomes/Gloves conflict ends.
