Hannah Wilke, the Feminist Artist Who Used Her Body as a Canvas ...
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Hannah Wilke, the Feminist Artist Who Used Her Body as a Canvas ...
Self-portraits are part of an important feminist tradition, one steeped in patriarchal norms of what it meant to be an artist and a woman. Up until (appallingly) recently being a practicing artist meant that somehow you had to break into an unwelcoming boys club.
Sarah Murray • Kahlo vs. Kardashian: The Subversive Potential of the Female Self-Portrait
“Wilke’s earliest ceramic sculptures pulse with what Freud dubbed “polymorphous perversity,” as a void becomes a vagina, becomes a mouth, becomes a penis, becomes an anus, becomes an ear”
Wilke - Acquavella Galleries - Hesse / Wilke
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Wilke - Acquavella Galleries - Hesse / Wilke
https://hessewilke.acquavellagalleries.com/essays/wilke
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