> Art major Aliza Shvarts '08 wants to make a statement.
>
> Beginning next Tuesday, Shvarts will be displaying her senior art
> project, a documentation of a nine-month process during which she
> artificially inseminated herself "as often as possible" while
> periodically taking abortifacient drugs to induce miscarriages. Her
> exhibition will feature video recordings of these forced miscarriages
> as well as preserved collections of the blood from the process.
>
> The goal in creating the art exhibition, Shvarts said, was to spark
> conversation and debate on the relationship between art and the human
> body. But her project has already provoked more than just debate,
> inciting, for instance, outcry at a forum for fellow senior art majors
> held last week. And when told about Shvarts' project, students on both
> ends of the abortion debate have expressed shock -- saying the project
> does everything from violate moral code to trivialize abortion.
>
> But Shvarts insists her concept was not designed for "shock ...

> Jewish artists have a well established tradition of making demented
> fine art that makes people physically sick or disturbs them mentally.
> It's the turd on a plate and you should take offence.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degenerate_art

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> And a coupla thousand years ago, a radical rabbi was regarded as
> literal deity, though nobody has heard much since.
>