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Performance art in particular, with its anti-narrative, taboo-breaking, sometimes dangerous, and often politically activist content and contextualization, brand 1970s performances as coming as close to establishing a dematerializing, alternative to the commodity-based artworld as any modern art movement has achieved.
G. Roger Denson: You Say You Want a Revolution. Well You Know, Art Can Cure You of That G. Roger Denson 2011
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His taboo-breaking erotic songs and public drunken outbursts added a darker side to his reputation.
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Created by Kentaro Miura, Berserk is a runaway manga locomotive, a crashing colossus of teeth-rattling action, spine-chilling horror, and taboo-breaking humor that fires the boilers of its devoted devotees and just fires the rest.
Dark Horse Solicitations for May 2008 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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Performance art in particular, with its anti-narrative, taboo-breaking, sometimes dangerous, and often politically activist content and contextualization, brand 1970s performances as coming as close to establishing a dematerializing, alternative to the commodity-based artworld as any modern art movement has achieved.
G. Roger Denson: You Say You Want a Revolution. Well You Know, Art Can Cure You of That G. Roger Denson 2011
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A deaf teenager, his insensitive brother, someone with Alzheimer's disease – there's plenty to offend if that's what you're in the market for, but it's all gong and no dinner: all taboo-breaking buildup, no actual joke.
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A scene in which he licks fresh blood off the polished white floor of a public lavatory is a taboo-breaking highlight that lingers in the mind.
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The result was renewed regime triumphalism, and for hard-liners a taboo-breaking boldness.
Let the Swords Encircle Me Scott Peterson 2010
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"The latest chapter in a series of taboo-breaking television dramas, a two-part series shows Germans as victims of violence at the end of World War II and sparks controversy among Polish and German political leaders," reports Deutsche Welle.
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A taboo-breaking work is defamed and acclaimed The besieged National Endowment for the Arts is once again under assault.
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The classic Mines issue is probably August 1952, which published the taboo-breaking Philip Jose Farmer classic novel The Lovers.
Archive 2008-04-01 Chris Perridas 2008
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