Catherine McCormack
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“At best, the maiden archetype has enshrined female suffering as something noble and beautiful, at worst it has contributed to the normalisation of violence against women, by turning it into poetry, religious devotion or beauty, or even just a historically condoned inevitability.”
― Women in the Picture: Women, Art and the Power of Looking
― Women in the Picture: Women, Art and the Power of Looking
“When we change the way we see, the things we see also change.”
― Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
― Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
“Sex tends to be taken as an automatically liberating theme in art, but we might ask ourselves how liberating the sex was for the women in these pictures.”
― Women in the Picture: Women, Art and the Power of Looking
― Women in the Picture: Women, Art and the Power of Looking
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