Artistic Knives

The Times Arts section reported on a fairly disturbing show that opened yesterday: I Am Art: An Expression of the Visual Artistic Process of Plastic Surgery," curated by a plastic surgeon, uses the human body as a medium - YUCK!
The multimedia group show answers fundamental questions of creativity, writes Holland Cotter : "Who defines beauty, perfection, the ideal? To what degree is perfection another version of distortion?" If you decide to go under the knife yourself, Mr. Cotter won't object. "A thing of beauty is a joy, whether forever or for a day," he writes,"and if a doctor-artist can turn you into one, that's art to me."