Art & Outrage: Provocation, Controversy and the Visual Arts by John A. Walker

Author:John A. Walker [Walker, John A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Criticism & Theory, Art
ISBN: 9780745313597
Google: 8xjrAAAAMAAJ
Publisher: Pluto Press
Published: 1999-01-15T06:28:06+00:00

Fired Works, the Leeds Polytechnic exhibition that provoked a violent reaction was a joint staff/student display of ceramic sculptures. Certain works by students Stephen Clarke and Zena Herberts were judged by a number of Feminists to be obscene, violent ‘porno-art’ that degraded women. Shirley Moreno, lecturer in the Department of Adult Education, Leeds University, has described two works by Clarke as follows:

Fridge, a real fridge with rotting food plus the dismembered corpse of a woman wrapped in cling film. The body parts were naturalistically rendered and the fridge and its contents were splashed with red and green paint to simulate blood and mould.

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