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Artists' threat on the body is implicit. After centuries of Picasso tearing scalps, Matisse's pipe bent people, Yuskavage's overripe ovoids, Nguyen's surgical cosmetics - we feel the artistic blackmail. It's why Hill's always feel like forensic files to the corpse mangled offscreen. There's something too precious, too sentimental to Hill's eye, to the body that we treat like artistic meat, the grotesque arabesque violence outside.
See too: stress positions of beauty, Tala Madani, Violence Against Faces
