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Artist: Gerald Scarfe, cartoonist Confronting Bodies: Councillor Clive W. Venn, chairman of Newport Corporation's amenity and leisure services committee Date of Action: May, 1971 Specific Location: Londan, England Description of Artwork: Scarfe depicted Prime Minister Harold Wilson in the nude and surrounded by the Gnomes of Zurich. His cartoons often contain images of genitalia and fully naked figures. His cartoon of Princess Diana being raped by the media has never been published in a newspaper. His cartoon of Mao Zedong was unpopular with Chinese printers and his cartoon of Ronald Reagan was unpopular with the owner of the Times Newspapers, Rupert Murdoch.
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