"The primary purpose of every piece has to be to inform and serve, not to frighten or titillate, " Davidson says.

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Too often, in fact, they do little more than titillate the cognoscenti by being as deliberately "transgressive" as possible, in the process shocking innocently earnest viewers who fail to realize that transgressive art has no purpose other than to shock.

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