February 11th, 2010
Figuring Out the Abstract: Gender, Politics, and Art
Tags/ Posted by Stephen PainFlunking a breast exam one week after womb removal I get the call that something’s showed up and I go back to be prodded, probed and sonographed.continue reading this poem
To view, or “perform” art as Rosie Goldberg argues, is a challenge. We are often at a disadvantage even before we open our eyes to what is in front of us. Still in the 21st century, even after the art sociologist John Berger’s brilliant TV series “Ways of Seeing,” men look with sex in their eyes.
