This semester, I am enrolled in a Contemporary Art History class. During the second lecture of this course, our professor introduced Abstract Expressionist Lee Krasner. I assumed what would be most memorable about Lee’s story would be her work, but what I ended up taking away from this lecture was much more. Instead of her [...]
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The Stolen Erotic
Posted in art, feminism, tagged Abstract Expressionism, Audre Lorde, Erotic, Hauns Hoffman, Jackson Polluck, Lee Kraser on February 10, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Art Waits For No Woman
Posted in art, tagged art, Audre Lorde, language, Shirin Neshat on February 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When I heard that Shirin Neshat was coming to New Orleans, I had no idea who she was. So I went to hear her speak, interested in both the title of her talk “Women Without Men” and her artistic work. Right away she started talking about the artist’s conversation between the personal and the public [...]
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