Call me pre-menstrual, but periods are not the stuff of real art

From: Scotland on Sunday | Date: November 9, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

IT'S just not enough anymore for someone to get hold of a great fat hunk of Carrera marble and go at it with a chisel. Nor is it enough to invest in a couple of yards of canvas, a pile of rainbow- hued pigments and a hank of hair plucked from the family moggy's tail. No. Nowadays art's very much about concept and process, and as Marshall McLuhan said in another context, the medium is the message.

Thus we are treated to exhibitions featuring heads made of frozen blood and placenta, sheep in embalmer's aspic and Doric columns covered in sliced luncheon meat. Now, I'm amused to report, artist ...

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