Butts

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Man Ray Monument to D.A.F. de Sade, 1933
photograph of a woman’s ass framed by an upside-down cross

 

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Daniel Fountain Stuffed, 2020
Scrap fabrics, found objects, used pillow stuffing, adornments (beads, studs and bristles)

 

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Xu Zhen Rainbow, 1998
‘Body part being slapped – gradually turning red. Video, 4 minutes’

 

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Kris Lemsalu Beyonce, 2019

 

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Jeanne Dunning Various, 1988 – 1993
Chromogenic prints

Untitled (Hole)

Long Hole

Deep Hole

Puddle

 

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Stan Murmur Stephen Colbert, 2009
‘An art teacher has been suspended from his school, after footage of him painting with his buttocks on a TV show appeared on YouTube. Stephen Murmer – who paints with his bottom, as a self-described ‘butt-printing artist’, under the name of Stan Murmur – was suspended for five days while authorities investigate the video. He could also face longer-term, unpaid suspension.

‘The video comes from an appearance on the US TV show Unscrewed With Martin Sargent, in which Murmer appeared in a disguise, and demonstrated his bum art. It was uploaded to YouTube in March, but apparently only came to the school’s attention recently. Murmer, from Monacan High School in Virginia, has a technique which involves coating his buttocks – or when he requires greater detail, his penis – with paint, then pressing them on the canvas.

‘Kent Willis, of the American Civil Liberties Union, which is representing Murmer, said: ‘As a public employee, he has constitutional rights, and he certainly has the right to engage in private legal activities protected by the First Amendment of the Constitution.’’

 

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Mike Kelley Monkey’s Ass, 1981-1982
Acrylic on sheetmetal over wood

 

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Mark Morrisroe Untitled (Male Buttocks), 1986
Vintage chromogenic print (negative sandwich) retouched with ink

 

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Dash Snow God Spoiled A Perfect Asshole When He Put Teeth In Yer Mouth, 2007
collage, paper

 

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Paul McCarthy Ass Hole, 2017
7-ply Canadian Maple Wood

 

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Narcissister Ass Vag, 2008
‘In her seminal work Ass Vag, Narcissister’s radical feminist ontology posits the indiscreet jewels of a complacently sex saturated society against the unruly dreaming of post-porn postmodernity. Dawning black and magenta homespun genitalia of gargantuan proportions, Narcissister plays off of the folkloric myth of the Vagina Dentata – fashioning an oversize ass and vagina pair wired to pleasure only itself. Marrying aggressive eroticism and bawdry humor through puppetry, the work forces the viewer belly up against the coldly oscillating desire of dominant narrative form. With a dyi soundtrack layering rap artist JDilla over samples of Narcissister’s own voice coaxing, crooning and didactically instructing herself into the highest pitches of pleasure, this piece turns sexual objectification on its heels occupying positionalities which are multiple, fluid and polyvocal.’

 

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Joseph Beuys Buttock lifting, 1974
Enamel plate, curved

 

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Judie Bamber Mom With Orange Underpants, 2006
Watercolor on paper

 

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Andy Warhol Male Torso (Buttocks), 1977
synthetic polymer and silkscreen ink on canvas

 

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D’Angelo Lovell Williams Face Down, Ass Up, 2017
‘”When I made Face Down, Ass Up,” the artist, who’s from Mississippi, said, “it was about me wanting to reinterpret what happened to me, painless and natural, but in a beautiful way.”‘

 

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Arno Breker “at work”, 1934
‘During the Nazi regime, Nazi-darling sculptor Arno Breker was championed as a healthy antidote to other “degenerate” art, and his statues’ glutei maximi are only a tad leaner than the ones Michelangelo fashioned.’

 

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Yves Scherer Boy, 2019
‘Boy isolates an image from media technology in the early years of its domestication. The rise of the cult celebrity and reality TV owes to these advances in video, which granted the camera greater access to the home and blurred the realms of private and public. The work combines technology, mechanics and the ancient technique of lost-wax bronze casting.’

 

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Hal Fischer Gay Semiotics, 1977
Photograph, extended gray range, the use of glossy RC paper

 

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Christian Frosi Ass-Shadow Balls, 2014
Sport balls, slide projector

 

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Robert Gober Untitled, 1991-1994
beeswax, wood, cotton, human hair and latex paint

 

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Nenad Cerovic Butt Anal Plug Sex Toys In Ass Totebag, 2020
‘The tote bag is machine washable, available in three different sizes, and includes a cotton rope handle for easy carrying on your shoulder.’

 

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The Young Boy Dance Group Challenging neo fascism through LGBTQ art, 2018
‘The Young Boy Dance group is unabashedly left in ideology, if one couldn’t guess. Another cofounder, transgender performer Nico Roses, is an open advocate for leftist revolutionaries in Chile, and shares articles entitled “poor people have to kill all the rich people or else humanity will not survive.”’

 

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Will Kurtz Sniffing Ass, 2011
wood, wire, cardboard, newspaper, tape, glue, matte medium, UV matte varnish, bra, panty hose, wig

 

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Larry Johnson Untitled (Ass), 2007
Color photograph

 

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Angus Shackleton Butt Clench, 2021
file Size: 6358KB, duration: 5.500 sec

 

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worldsbestlasagna Female anus too close to vagina, 2019

 

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Cindy Sherman Untitled no.258, 1992
color photograph

 

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Ambera Wellmann Blue in Green, 2018
Oil on Paper, mounted on Dibond

 

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David Cerny Brown-Nosers, 2003
‘The sculptures are a permanent fixture hidden in the back garden of Futura, an art museum. The gigantic, naked lower halves of two bodies are bent over and lean against the side of the building, revealing their rather gaping orifices. Viewers are invited to climb the ladder leading to the macroscopic derrieres and stick their heads inside the behemoth butts. But rather than being greeted with a slurry of some sort of sculpted internal sludge, as one might expect to find within an artistic anus, people will instead see a television screen that plays a video of two Czech politicians spoon feeding each other to the sounds of Queen’s “We Are the Champions.”’

 

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Patricia Piccinini & Peter Hennessey Nectar, 2014
Silicone, resin, fibreglass, human hair

 

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Louis7V Homage to Alex Faux, 2019

 

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ARAI Shin-ichi Happy Japan!, 1999
‘ARAI Shin-ichi is an established Japanese performance artist who has been working around the world since the 1980s, especially in Asia and Western Europe. His performances are direct, clear and obvious — perhaps too obvious at first glance. Recently, at the 4th Open Art Festival which took place in Changchun, China, September 2003, Arai performed “Happy Japan!,” a well known performance work which is his signature piece having been performed more than ten times since 1999.

‘For the performance, Arai dressed soberly in a dark green suit which, he tells us, is the uniform of Japan Overseas Cooperate Volunteers, a body of young people under 40 to propagate Japanese civilization around the world. And the honorary president of the Organization is the Emperor.In a clear, unemotional speech, he introduces his audience to the book he holds in his hands, “War theory,” a controversial comic book that has sold a most a million copies.

‘He then takes off his clothes, keeping only a small yellow “Pikachu Pokemon” fig leaf on his genitals, and squats on a square white canvas on the floor. While singing the Japanese national anthem, he presses a plastic tube of Riquitex containing red paint from just below his buttocks, as if excreting red human waste. Using his bare buttocks on the “waste,” he paints a full but irregular rising sun in the middle of the white canvas that turns out to be a copy of the Japanese national flag, which he later hangs on the wall. He then tears out random pages of the comic book, giving some to the audience, and stuffing others into his mouth after reading out a few lines. He chews them, shouting “Happy Japan.” At the same time, the accumulation of paper in his mouth blocks his emotional speech, making his voice hoarse before it disappears entirely inside his throat. The performance ends when a last, almost inaudible “Happy Japan” emerges from his suffocating mouth, while tears run down his pain-distorted face.’

 

 

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