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The Female Body in the Looking-Glass - Contemporary Art, Aesthetics and Genderland (Hardcover)
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The Female Body in the Looking-Glass - Contemporary Art, Aesthetics and Genderland (Hardcover)
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In his theory of the 'mirror stage', the psychoanalyst and
psychiatrist Jacques Lacan argued that the female body is defined
by its lack of male attributes. Within this framework, he described
female sexuality primarily as an absence, and assumed female
subordination to the male gaze. However, what happens if one
follows Jean Baudrillard's advice to 'swallow the mirror' and go
through the 'looking-glass' to explore the reflections and
realities that we encounter in the cultural mirror, which reflects
the culture in question: its norms, ideals and values? What if the
beautiful is inverted and becomes ugly; and the ugly is considered
beautiful or shape-shifts into something conventionally thought of
as beautiful? These are the fundamental questions that Basia
Sliwinska poses in this important new enquiry into gender identity
and the politics of vision in contemporary women's art.Through an
innovative discussion of the mirror as a metaphor, Sliwinska
reveals how the post-1989 practices of woman artists from both
sides of the former Iron Curtain - such as Joanna Rajkowska, Marina
Abramovic, Boryana Rossa, Natalia LL and Anetta Mona Chisa and
Lucia Tkacova - go beyond gender binaries and instead embrace
otherness and difference by playing with visual tropes of
femininity. Their provocative works offer alternative
representations of the female body to those seen in the cultural
mirror. Their art challenges and deconstructs patriarchal
representations of the social and cultural 'other', associated with
visual tropes of femininity such as Alice in Wonderland, Venus and
Medusa. The Female Body in the Looking-Glass makes a refreshing,
radical intervention into art theory and cultural studies by
offering new theoretical concepts such as 'the mirror' and
'genderland' (inspired by Alice's adventures in Wonderland) as
critical tools with which we can analyse and explain recent
developments in women's art.
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