contemporary art hates you

god is dead but my hair is perfect

[determinate-negation]

being a woman is like

[thisobscuredesireforbeauty]

Shalva Nikvashvili

[fanzelteim]

Masked killers of horror: Torso (1973); The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974); Alice, Sweet Alice (1976); Halloween (1978); Tourist Trap (1979); Curtains (1983)

[thisobscuredesireforbeauty]

Tabea Blumenschein in: Bildnis einer Trinkerin (Dir. Ulrike Ottinger, 1979). Source 1 Source 2

[thierrymugler]

Thierry Mugler: Couturissime, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

Act I: Macbeth 

Stage costumes and sketches for La Tragedie de Macbeth by Jean Pierre Vincent. Festival d’Avignon, Cour d’honneur du Palais des Papes, July 1985

[itscolossal]

Mexican Guardians Haunt Familial Portraits by Photographer Diego Moreno

[gatakka]

Elia Alba - Portrait of a Young Girl, 2012.

[songsforgorgons]

“The cliché that when women are liberated men will be liberated too shamelessly slides over the raw reality of male domination — as if this were an arrangement in fact arranged by nobody, which suits nobody, which works to nobody’s advantage. In fact, the very opposite is true. The domination of men over women is to the advantage of men; the liberation of women will be at the expense of male privilege. Perhaps afterwards, in some happy sense, men will be liberated too — liberated from the tiresome obligation to be ‘masculine.’ But allowing oppressors to lay down their psychological burdens is quite another, secondary sense of liberation. The first priority is to liberate the oppressed.  Never before in history have the claims of oppressed and oppressors turned out to be, on inspection, quite harmonious. It will not be true this time either.”

— From “The Third World of Women,” by Susan Sontag. Partisan Review, Vol. 40, No. 2 (1973).

[rhetthammersmithhorror]

[rhetthammersmithhorror]

Parts: The Clonus Horror (1979)

[rhetthammersmithhorror]

it’s allergy season again

Parasite (1982)

[overdose-art]

Charles Fréger, Yokainoshima (Yokai’s Island), 2013-2015

[tiktoksithinkarefunny]

[thisobscuredesireforbeauty]

Ann Magnuson in: Cabin Boy (Dir. Adam Resnick, 1994). Source

[coutureicons]

[7while23]

Sanja Iveković, Osobni Rezovi (Personal Cuts), 1982

[craftypantscarol]

Bewitched - The No-Harm Charm

[heavyweightheart]

women’s appearance is often viewed as existing on a scale from unattractive to attractive, but that’s way too benign a conceptualization. the reality is that we exist on a scale from dehumanized to acceptable. attractiveness is just one of many qualities that a human might have; for us, physical configurations are often matters of life and death. our bodies determine whether we’ll be treated w some degree of basic human decency, or whether we’ll be utterly discarded by the world. meeting the criteria for women’s appearance under patriarchy is not a question of mere attractiveness but of emotional and physical survival 

[cliteralviolence]

More like dehumanized to objectified honestly.

On a scale of “you don’t matter at all” to “we’ll treat you like a sex object” and that’s considered the most desirable.