flesh dress flesh dress artwork created canadian displayed montreal famous showing ottawa attracted national controversy work composed pounds raw flank hung according artist work contrast artwork collections walker art center minneapolis paris edition artist copy description artwork consists flesh dress constructed beef hung tailor dummy nearby wall framed photograph model posing dress dress pounds raw flank constructed time shown work included worth meat showing suggested title work considered genre category art showing death decay work includes non traditional materials trend 20th century art stands tradition disturbing experience earlier instances meat clothing art outfits including bikini featured dream venus pavilion world fair cover november compilation album wrapped showed female model wearing cuts meat held place plastic wrap clothes bacon necklace singer lady_gaga attended awards wearing meat dress similar style exhibition montreal gallery exhibited flesh dress exhibit received attention age given retrospective called states reviewing past decade works scheduled march exhibit included works like cone hand exhibit relatively attended compared shows controversy discussed catalog states corps corps meat falling anonymous donor gave gallery replacement meat number debate worth meat listed vegetarian magazine negative publicity work received gallery staff pretended finding butcher ottawa area provide replacement meat purchased copy work walker art center minnesota reconstructed small team midnight party work later exhibited modern london exhibition rites passage small retrospective work taken barcelona edited arid minimum artist included editing dress work presented paris controversy work series controversies surrounding 1980s 1990s including acquisition year drew criticism members parliament organizers food banks soup considered insult given early 1990s recession pig farmer commented dress lot people hold food sacred land appalled use food thing response newspaper editorial called meat head chair oversees funding committee split issue artist called self proclaimed successful farmer art critic commented committee concept based notion poverty hunger canada surely irony desperate position members group created mess country ottawa called health found work presented health hazards inspected april ottawa issued statement dress presented health hazard public time long touches eats inspector suggested dress jurisdiction federal property department asked follow sister paper printed cartoon featuring slip materials meat dress editorial cartoon suggested readers cut image mail curator address included image writer canadian art noted cartoonist suggested respondents use material possible diana like emphasis curator gender subtly sexual suggestions opened mail gloves weeks cartoon covered sexually threatening letter sent communications officer quoted articles work writer canadian art suggested reaction different artist curator different work likely deemed starters people food week contemporary canadian art curator suggested controversy largely work taken larger context doubt dress provocative object meant provocative object cry waste food noted exhibits grains potatoes previous exhibits flesh likely source controversy kind double cross clothing supposed second skin cover process reveals don want confront mortality film silence man women released time coincidence noted writer magazine critical reviews work german referenced work portrayed eating clothes closet new_york_times writer noted work inspired theoretical writing leaves layered metaphors work seductive intensely physical edged dark delivers mind body intellect
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