Tuesday, December 5, 2017

representations of women and the gaze. whoever is looking controls the scene


Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, La Grande Odalisque, 1814, oil on canvas


Olympia is a painting by Édouard Manet, first exhibited at the 1865 Paris Salon, which shows a nude woman lying on a bed being brought flowers by a servant. Olympia was modelled by Victorine Meurent and Olympia's servant by the art model Laure. Wikipedia

Lalla Essaydi, Les Femmes Du Maroc: La Grande Odalisque, 2008, chromogenic print mounted to aluminum, signed, titled, dated, and numbered on label verso, 30 x 40 inches, edition 8 of 15. Image courtesy Jackson Fine Art

odalisque by franz russ the younger 1873



Terence Nance filmmaker

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You and I and You from Terence Nance on Vimeo.



Sweetwater Foundation

Sweetwater foundation https://grist.org/article/emmanuel-pratt-macarthur-genius-sweet-water-chicago/