The Female Body in the Looking-Glass

Contemporary Art, Aesthetics and Genderland

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Gender Studies, Art & Architecture, General Art
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Author: Basia Sliwinska ISBN: 9781786720085
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Publication: June 29, 2016
Imprint: I.B. Tauris Language: English
Author: Basia Sliwinska
ISBN: 9781786720085
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication: June 29, 2016
Imprint: I.B. Tauris
Language: English

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.

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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.

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