Successful Operation

Performance artist ORLAN undergoes one in a series of surgeries that would give her the chin of Sandro Botticellis Venus in The Birth of Venus the nose of Francois Pascal Simon Gerards Psyche in Le premier baisser de lamour a Psyche the eyes of Diana in the sculpture Diane chasseresse the lips of Gustave Moreaus Europa in Lenlevement dEurope and the brow of Leonardos Mona Lisa to draw attention to received Western notions of beauty and femininity