The human body as subject matter became increasingly scandalous and provocative
in the post-war climate, whether
in Hans Bellmer's
dark surrealist masterpiece Les Jeux de la Poupée, Allen Jones's
typically fetishistic Waitress I, or for the body's new role as a medium of experience, object of analysis, and tool of social protest through performance,
seen in the Aktionism of Gunther Brus (Patent Merde).