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Article: Art Aimed To Shock.(The Arts)
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- May 5, 2008
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Byline: Jennie Yabroff
Yale's abortion artist is the latest to try--and fail-- to start a conversation.
A German artist wants to install a terminally ill patient in a gallery as an exhibit. In Nicaragua last year, an artist displayed a starving dog, tethered just out of reach of food, as conceptual art. In New Haven, Conn., an artist claims to have made multiple attempts to impregnate herself and then induce miscarriages as a work of art. All these artists say their projects are intended to start conversations. But apart from all the shouting about indecency and insensitivity, are any ideas actually being exchanged?
When Gregor Schneider, who previously installed ...
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