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Stop Normalizing Obesity

April 5, 2019February 14, 2021 mariela escobar

After reading multiple articles about loving and accepting your body no matter what your weight is or your size, and several articles about obesity, it has come to my mind that society is trying to normalize obesity without considering that obesity continues to be a disease, not something to be

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A New Kind of Forgery

December 13, 2018February 14, 2021 Parnaz Rezaie Boroon

Would you undergo plastic surgery for art? French artist, ORLAN, has drastically challenged how far one will go for art by utilizing her body as an architectural canvas. She has undergone many facial and body alterations to represent pieces of artwork and enact performances. For example, in 1990, ORLAN underwent

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Quit Pulling My Leg

December 3, 2018February 14, 2021 Andrea Schreck

“I like to watch them struggle. To see them use their dead legs and floppy feet to even just climb into bed. It turns me on like nothing else can.” This is a look inside the mind of someone with acrotomophilia–the concept of being sexually attracted to amputees–that is more

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Taboo: Artist Timi Páll Menstrual blood

April 16, 2018February 14, 2021 For entertainment

Artist Timi Páll, used nine months of her menstrual blood for an artwork piece. Many have considered it disgusting, but everyone has their unique interpretation on what art is. According to Timi ” I’ve used my period flow as an artistic substance like oil paints and pencils,” even went as

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Body Shaming Through the Use of Advertisements

October 17, 2017February 14, 2021 Amanda Brown

Through the use of advertising, there has been an idealized body type for women in regards to fashion and beauty. Advertisements involved pictures of models with unrealistic body types wearing expensive and high-end fashion, and this is what the average woman sees all around them. It is seemed as desirable,

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Art’s Burden

October 5, 2017February 14, 2021 bgoeltzenleuchter

A twelve-year-old boy was seriously injured from a motor scooter accident and the doctor had to administer immediate surgery; the surgery was so urgent that anesthetic was not given. What kind of impact do you think this would have on a kid? For Chris Burden, he called it “formative”, and

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Is body paint considered as clothing?

September 23, 2016February 14, 2021 bgoeltzenleuchter

Laws everywhere prohibit nudity and people get arrested for public indecency if they are caught naked in public. However, there is a grey area when it comes to body paint, where people are not always arrested. The article discusses cases of when people covered in body paint were arrested and

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Leonardo da Vinci and Dissection

April 25, 2013February 14, 2021 bgoeltzenleuchter

Leonardo da Vinci, who lived from 1452-1519, is well known for his anatomical sketches of the human body. He would dissect dead human remains and then draw what he saw. Dissection was completely illegal unless one was a physician, which da Vinci was not. It is believed that da Vinci

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