(http://www.snopes.com/politics/arts/meatdress.asp)
(http://personal.telefonica.terra.es/web/rosadevenir/jana_eng.htm)
The Flesh Dress, made in 1987, was made up of 50 pounds of stitched together raw steak(http://www.snopes.com/politics/arts/meatdress.asp). Over time the dress would change; it looked like dried-out leather by the time Sterbak's exhibition ended(http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2002/03/04/29702.html). It takes about six weeks for the dress to fully decompose(http//www.snopes.com/politics/arts/meatdress.asp).
[Sterbak wanted] to emphasize the contrast between vanity and bodily decay[with the meat dress](http://www.snopes.com/politics/arts/meatdress.asp). The artwork has been debated whether or not it is really art. To protest the new art show exhibiting the dress, food scraps were sent to Canada's most popular museum by two hundred people(http://www.snopes.com/politics/arts/meatdress.asp). Critics say that the dress "is a waste of food and taxpayers' money(http://www.snopes.com/politics/arts/meatdress.asp);" in defense, museum curators say the dress is "a graphic reminder of mortality and the aging process(http://www.snopes.com/politics/arts/meatdress.asp)."
