"Alexander McQueen." Savage Beauty: The Aesthetics of Spectacle & The Body Politics in Fashion. Date Completed: December 2013. Brief: A Brief History of Shock - Final Presentation. A quick glance at the history of the visual and performance arts easily reveals how shock has evolved from mere technique to an agent of change. However, what grants McQueen particular uniqueness as a shock artist is his medium of avant-garde expression: clothes. But perhaps the more important canvas of McQueen was not fabric nor cloth, but the female body. This presentation accompanied an essay in which I analyzed his most notable runway shows to demonstrate how five themes of shock art can be grouped under one: the woman as the site of tactic experimentation.