Romaine Brooks and the Relationship Between Body Size and Femininity
Brooks challenges the concept of what Betterton considers “the active desiring agents” by fashioning the female body for the female desire.
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Aug 3, 2021
Quasi-Oedipus Complex & Fantastical Castration
Bourgeois uses her own lived experience of childhood trauma to reimagine and witness the literal ‘destruction of her father’.
Jul 20, 2021
The Visual (and Physical) Penetration of Tracey Emin's Abject Tent
Emin’s Tent illuminates the anxieties endured in contemporary Western society surrounding the sexually promiscuous female body.
Jul 13, 2021
Performing Excess, Performing Affect
The risk of shame is not that it affects the body of the ashamed, but rather the idea that shame reflects back at (and onto) the viewer.
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