Fatscination

A visual blog on depictions of fat in the arts. Bearing witness to the ways in which people of size have been fixed as allegories of sin: lust, gluttony, avarice) and sites of excessive desire, deviance, and depravity but also of strength, vitality, and maternal feeling,...

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This is the correct vest for eating freshly-picked cherries.  From Lustige Blätter, 1906.

Sometimes there’s nowhere else to go but up a tree.

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Page of Wands. Art by Charlie Claire Burgess, from the Fifth Spirit Tarot.

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CAMBIASO, Luca Diana and Satyr c. 1560 Fresco Loggia di Diana, Villa Pallavicino delle Peschiere, Genoa

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The angel of peace contracted cholera, from Die Muskete, 1912.

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From Kladderadatsch, 1933.

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From Kladderadatsch, 1922.

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From Judge’s Library, 1887.

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Portrait of Gertrude Stein, 1907, Felix Vallotton

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Portrait of John Singleton Copely by Rogers, 1767

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The first time I saw this cartoon, it was hanging on a t-shirt in a not very upscale mall in North Carolina. I was horrified. It seemed to me the meanest kind of humor. But, apparently, it’s a favorite one-liner for many people. The joke is an old one. You can even find a vintage cartoon version of a fat lady at the beach who has “lost” her little boy Charlie in just this way.

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Louis XIV medallion (Bertinet, 1680)

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Pieter Brueghel the Younger “The Flatterers” (Flemish, 1592)

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Enamel on sterling silver depicting Queen Louise of Prussia (probably early nineteenth century).

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From Kladderadatsch, 1939.

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