November 27th, 2010
Listening to Judy Chicago
Tags/ Posted by Maureen DoallasSee me reflected in the fairy tale mirror: the snarls of hair, the graying teeth, the skin smeared with mud and rain. I might have crawled out of the brush to hamstring you with a sharpened rock.continue reading this poem
Judy Chicago has collaborated with Prestel Publishers and art historian Frances Borzello to create an amazing discussion in her new book ‘Frida Kahlo – Face to Face’. Written to take the approach of Kahlo’s work and oeuvre as whole; to go beyond biography to reveal how Kahlo prefigured many foci of feminist art and broke the silence about the legitimacy of women’s experiences as subject for art.
February 11th, 2010
Figuring Out the Abstract: Gender, Politics, and Art
Tags/ Posted by Stephen PainI see fireflies instead of stars, stars instead of meteors.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.
