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Animal desire: famous artists versus animal rights groups
Pit-bulls running on treadmills, tattooed pigs copulating, species fighting and eating one another in front of the audience, stuffed animals and slaughtered terrestrial mammals kept in formaldehyde-filled vitrines are used by the artists to produce controversial art works treading the fine line between provocation and violence. Let us list briefly some of these infamous yet renowned artists.