Reconsidering the relationship between autobiography and self-portraiture, The Body as Medium and Metaphor explores the intertextuality of self-representation in twentieth-century French art. Situating the body as the nexus of intersections between the written word and the visual image, this book rethinks the problematic status of the self. Starting at the twentieth-century’s departure from figurative and mimetic representation, this study discusses the work of seminal artists and writers – including Marcel Duchamp, Michel Leiris, Francis Bacon, Bernard Noël, Gisèle Prassinos, Louise Bourgeois and Orlan – to articulate the twentieth century’s radical revisions of subjectivity that originated from and returned to representations of the word, the image, and the body. ...See More
Strips of colour intersect. Cubes shift and tesselate. Faces are obscured, spliced and transformed. These are works by Argentinian-born, Houston-based Karen Navarro, an artist working across photography, collage and sculpture. Her constructions take portraiture into three dimensions – pushing the boundaries of traditional image-making to create something unconventional. In doing so, she investigates the intersections of identity, self-representation, race, gender and belonging.
Born in 1907, Frida Kahlo lived her formative years against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution (1910‒20), which shaped her enduring commitment to communism. She joined the Communist Party as a teenager and remained involved in the revolutionary movement for most of her life. As with most aspects of her life, Kahlo’s communism was reflected in her art and self-presentation. For example, she painted the hammer and sickle on the chest of several of her plaster corsets. The second photograph shows Kahlo at her last public appearance, a student protest against CIA involvement in ousting Guatemalan president Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán in 1954.
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Frida Kahlo, quien nació en 1907, vivió sus años de formación en el contexto de la Revolución Mexicana (1910-20), la cual dio forma a su compromiso duradero con el comunismo. Se unió al Partido Comunista cuando era adolescente y permaneció involucrada en el movimiento revolucionario durante la mayor parte de su vida. Como en la mayoría de los aspectos de su vida, sus ideas comunistas se reflejaron en su arte y auto presentación. Por ejemplo, pintó el martillo y la hoz en el cofre de varios de sus corsés de yeso. La segunda fotografía muestra a Kahlo en su última aparición pública, una protesta en contra de la participación de la CIA en el derrocamiento del presidente de Guatemala, Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán, en 1954.
Florence Arquin (American, 1900 - 1974). Frida Kahlo, 1951. Gelatin silver print. Courtesyby Throckmorton Fine Art ⇨ Charles Horace Mayo (American, 1865 - 1939) & William James Mayo (American, 1861 - 1939). Diego Rivera, Juan O’Gorman, and Frida Kahlo During the Student Demonstration, Por la Paz, 1954. Gelatin silver print. Courtesy of Throckmorton Fine Art.
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1st Meeting - 17th Session of the Forum on Minority Issues.
The 17th session of the United Nations Forum on Minority Issues will be convened on 28 and 29 November 2024 at the Palais des Nations in Gen
The 17th session of the United Nations Forum on Minority Issues will be convened on 28 and 29 November 2024 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 6/15 of 28 September 2007 and resolution 19/23 of 23 March 2012. This year, the theme of the UN Forum is the representation and self-representation of minorities in public spaces and discourses.
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