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The Female Body in the Looking-Glass - Contemporary Art, Aesthetics and Genderland (Paperback)
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The Female Body in the Looking-Glass - Contemporary Art, Aesthetics and Genderland (Paperback)
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In his writing on the 'mirror stage', the psychoanalytic theorist
Jacques Lacan describes the female body as lacking: a mere symptom
of man, an object constructed by male desire. However, what happens
if the woman in art follows Jean Baudrillard's advice to 'swallow
the mirror', and is made real? What if the beautiful is inverted
and becomes ugly; and the ugly becomes beautiful? These are the
fundamental questions 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
metaphor of the mirror, or looking-glass, Sliwinska reveals how the
post-1989 practices of woman artists from both sides of the former
Iron Curtain - such as Marina Abramovic, Joanna Rajkowska, Lora
Hristova, Jess Dobkin, Natalia LL, Sedzia Glowny and SZ-ZS - go
beyond gender binaries and instead embrace otherness and
difference. She makes a refreshing, radical intervention into art
theory and cultural studies by offering concepts such as 'the
mirror' and 'genderland' (inspired by Alice's 'Wonderland') as
critical tools with which we can analyse and explain recent
developments in women's art.
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