Successful Operation

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1992

Documentary

9 minutes

Summary

Performance artist ORLAN undergoes one in a series of surgeries that would give her “the chin of Sandro Botticelli’s Venus in The Birth of Venus, the nose of Francois Pascal Simon Gerard’s Psyche in Le premier baisser de l’amour a Psyche, the eyes of Diana in the sculpture Diane chasseresse, the lips of Gustave Moreau’s Europa in L’enlevement d’Europe and the brow of Leonardo’s Mona Lisa to draw attention to received Western notions of beauty and femininity.

Orlan

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Original NameOpération réussie n. x (Successful Operation)

StatusReleased: 33 years ago
January 1, 1992

LanguageUnknown

Spoken LanguagesFrançais

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