Re: Artist I have been looking at during this nude discussion

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From: Judy Seigel (jseigel@panix.com)
Date: 09/05/02-03:09:25 PM Z


On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Robert Newcomb wrote:

> Ruth also put one young lady in a very large round bowl - is it just
> rectangular boxes that you don't like or all types of containers? Girl in
> a bowl is kind of like a Weston pepper in a funnel - form and shape.

Exactly.

If you read fem crit circa 1975 you'd know that treating women as
*objects* was exactly the problem. In mainstream art, men were people,
women (often) objects. As gay aesthetic spreads into mainstream, which
it seems to, things may change, but at this point Calvin Klein ads are
still ads, not "high art."

In any event, wouldn't you say that woman-in-a-bowl is pretty sappy?
Which was my point.

J.


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