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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Art Recording History

I think anyone can look at pictures from this time period and pretty much immediately recognize that they are from the Civil Rights march.

This picture may be a bit more difficult to recognize. It is a photograph of the atomic bomb that hit Hiroshima.

German Artist Gregor Schneider’s unmade controversial piece of art which can be referred to as, “The beauty in death.” Gregor Schneider’s newest artistic endeavor will be complete as soon as he has a volunteer who is willing to die in a museum in observance of spectators from another room. The controversy arises when some people suggest that, “What if no one sees any beauty in death? What if there is simply death in death?” He claims that no individual’s death in his piece will be in vein (and all necessary respects to the dying will be made prior to their death). There is much debate over the artistic value of this design, if any

Our second piece of Controversial Art would definitely have to be the Bodies Exhibit. It's controversial because it uses actual pieces of human skin, and well the human body. It is currently in Atlantic Station.