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Wim Delvoye : cloaca

by Wim Delvoye, Milan Kundera, Dan Cameron, Dieter Roelstraete, Dominique Laporte, Georges Bataille, Gerardo Mosquera, Peter Sloterdijk, Peter Bexte, Salvador Dalí

This publication explores the conceptual art installation Cloaca, a machine that mimics the human digestive system, alongside other unconventional sculptures. Accompanying essays analyse themes of scatology, disgust, and the boundaries between high and low culture.

Accession 4226 ISBN 9789090153872 Publisher Rectapublishers, New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York, N.Y.)
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