Aliza Shvarts is an art major at Yale University most well know for displaying a controversial art project dealing with abortion. Many believe Shvarts pushed the boundaries by documenting a nine-month process where she artificially...
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Aliza Shvarts is an art major at Yale University most well know for displaying a controversial art project dealing with abortion. Many believe Shvarts pushed the boundaries by documenting a nine-month process where she artificially inseminated herself, then periodically took abortifacient drugs to induce miscarriages. Her gallery featured video recording of the forced miscarriages as well as collections of the blood from the process.
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One of the chief lessons of contemporary “avant-garde” art, especially that which pullulates in an academic setting, is that the unutterably tedious can cohabit seamlessly with the repellent. That may seem counterintuitive. After all, wasn’t the main point of “transgressive” art to rescue us from banality, to lift us out of the tedious, taken-for-granted way of looking at things in which all of us philistine, middle-class bourgeois folks have been absorbed since childhood? That’s certainly a...
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No word on what it was, at least not from the Daily News, but I’ll hazard a guess that it didn’t involve self-insemination:
Aliza Shvarts ’08 has submitted another art piece in place of her controversial senior project that purportedly documented nine months of self-induced miscarriages, the University said this week.
The announcement — which came Monday, a week and a half after Shvarts’ initial project inspired nothing short of a national controversy — puts to rest the question of whether...
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First, Yale women address Aliza in a letter published in the Yale Daily News:
To the Editor:
Dear Aliza,
Upon hearing the extent of your enterprising senior art project, a few of your sisters and fellow travelers in the academy would like to respond to you, as a woman and a young academic.
This week, you have sparked a heightened level of consideration of the limits of modern artistic expression, and we are struck by the extent to which you have radically engaged your medium, your body and...
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Thanks to an alert reader, it has come to our attention that the induced miscarriage project we reported on a few days ago was a hoax. Aliza Shvarts, the artist responsible for the induced miscarriage project, was apparently shitting us …
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The letter follows on the objections of abortion advocates who assert that the Bush administration is making contraception abortion with the definitions in ...
The Thomas More Society, a non-profit law firm in Chicago that specializes in anti-abortion issues, filed appeals this week with the Zoning Board of Appeals ...
