Thursday, September 20, 2018

Camille Claudel, Lost... & Found

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Detail of L'abandon (or  Sakountala ) - bronze - 1905, Camille Claudel. "Camille Claudel died in a lunatic asylum in 1943...
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Tuesday, September 18, 2018

An André Breton Kind of Day

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A portrait of André Breton by Victor Brauner. (Click-on images to enlarge.) "I believe in the future resolution of these two sta...
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Saturday, September 15, 2018

Qualifying Feminism: Empowerment and the Arts (Part II)

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A poster in a London bus station featuring an image by the artist Egon Schiele. The banner,  however -  strategically plastered over...
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Saturday, August 11, 2018

Farewell to a Free Spirit (with 8/17/18 update and Addendum)

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Oksana Shachko (January  31,  1987- July  23,  2018) "... I was deeply inside the religious world and very concentrated on my cr...
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Monday, April 23, 2018

Can't Keep a Good Woman Down

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Our Godmother... feminist artist, Judy Chicago. "I told Chicago that I was struck that, though she had often struggled in her car...
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Sunday, April 1, 2018

Writ on Paper, Wrought in Stone (with Addendum)

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An interior photo of Cologne Cathedral in Westphalia, Germany. "This is what linked all people, she wanted to say, in spite of t...
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Saturday, March 24, 2018

A Day For the Little Ladies (Updated 3/28/18)

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Suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst in action circa 1914. (All images: click to enlarge.) "After the Socialist Party of America orga...
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Wednesday, February 14, 2018

A (totally unprecedented) Valentine's Day Interlude...

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My Lady Greensleeves - oil on canvas - 1863, Dante Gabriel Rossetti Lovesight When do I see thee most, beloved one? When in th...
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Monday, January 29, 2018

Qualifying Feminism: Empowerment and the Arts (Part I)

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Gal Gadot in her 2017 film role as Wonder Woman. "But it was within this busy, unorthodox household, where (William Moulton) Ma...