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Reynolds is at least the third female contemporary artist I've heard of to use meat as a running motif in her work; in art school I remember seeing a lot of meat-themed work by Jana Sterbak, including Chair Apollinaire (1996), a club chair upholstered with flank steak. I remember walking into a Sterbak mid-career retrospective at MCA in Chicago, and the smell of the work just completely taking over the space – well-meaning but clueless tourists drifted into the gallery smiling, and then marched right out again with contorted faces. And also very recently a Chilean artist named Gabriela Rivera caused a controversy with this video piece, in which she documents the act of covering her naked body with raw meat. I also want to say that Janine Antoni dabbled in the meat art game, but she might have just stuck to chocolate and lard.
Any other meat art I'm missing?
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8-22-2005 @4:23AM Kim Cooper said... Robert Delford Brown did his amazing Meat Show in '64, then there's Carolee Schneemann's performance Meat Joy, and I think Ann Simonton was making meat dresses a few years before Jana as part of her anti-beauty pageant actions.
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8-22-2005 @12:12PM brandon said... Any other meat art, you say? Well, while technically not meat, I think this might qualify:
http://www.nipponham.co.jp/winny/kazari/
At least I don't think it's meat. It's definitely art, though.
Okay, maybe it's neither.
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8-23-2005 @1:56PM Tanvi said... Ick! This makes my stomach turn. I dont know that I would call this art. Then again, maybe I have a vegetarian's bias...
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