http://www.theartblog.org/2010/01/reclaiming-women%e2%80%99s-anatomy-the-visible-vagina-at-francis-m-naumann-fine-art-and-david-nolan-gallery/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=reclaiming-women%25e2%2580%2599s-anatomy-the-visible-vagina-at-francis-m-naumann-fine-art-and-david-nolan-gallery Roberta Fallon and Libby Rosof's artblog Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:43:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.theartblog.org/2010/01/reclaiming-women%e2%80%99s-anatomy-the-visible-vagina-at-francis-m-naumann-fine-art-and-david-nolan-gallery/comment-page-1/#comment-26188 banksy Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:16:57 +0000 http://theartblog.org/?p=11669#comment-26188 Oh My ! Oh My !

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]]> http://www.theartblog.org/2010/01/reclaiming-women%e2%80%99s-anatomy-the-visible-vagina-at-francis-m-naumann-fine-art-and-david-nolan-gallery/comment-page-1/#comment-7587 Mark Roller Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:40:48 +0000 http://theartblog.org/?p=11669#comment-7587 I find it interesting that so many of the images, most of them by women, isolate the genitals in one way or another, rather than integrating them into a depiction of a whole person. Perhaps in the works by women this can be understood as a kind of self-portrait, but I still find it strange. Sometimes, in Penthouse style pornographic photo layouts, you can get some sense of the owner of the sex organs on display as a human being; more so than in most of the images in this show. Apparently the thinking of many of these artists never went beyond the merely transgressive, similar to the somewhat infantile compulsion that motivates so many makers of cable tv shows to overwork the sex and profanity just because they can. The only way to redeem graphic sexual imagery from the pornographic is to invest it with real feeling--a disembodied, de-personalized vagina, in a sleazy magazine or an upscale art gallery, is just an object. I find it interesting that so many of the images, most of them by women, isolate the genitals in one way or another, rather than integrating them into a depiction of a whole person. Perhaps in the works by women this can be understood as a kind of self-portrait, but I still find it strange. Sometimes, in Penthouse style pornographic photo layouts, you can get some sense of the owner of the sex organs on display as a human being; more so than in most of the images in this show. Apparently the thinking of many of these artists never went beyond the merely transgressive, similar to the somewhat infantile compulsion that motivates so many makers of cable tv shows to overwork the sex and profanity just because they can. The only way to redeem graphic sexual imagery from the pornographic is to invest it with real feeling–a disembodied, de-personalized vagina, in a sleazy magazine or an upscale art gallery, is just an object.

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]]> http://www.theartblog.org/2010/01/reclaiming-women%e2%80%99s-anatomy-the-visible-vagina-at-francis-m-naumann-fine-art-and-david-nolan-gallery/comment-page-1/#comment-7403 Karen LeCocq Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:32:50 +0000 http://theartblog.org/?p=11669#comment-7403 Good show, but you left out my now famous "Feather Cunt" (shown in the Armand Hammer show "Sexual Politics", another show at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and in the books: "The Power of Feminists Art", "Sexual Politics" and "A Studio of Their Own". It recently showed in Laura Meyer's show at CSUF "A Studio of Their Own, The 1970's Feminist Art Experiment" that showcased the original members of Judy Chicago's feminist art program in 1970. We did lots of vaginal art back then, but of all my pieces, "Feather Cunt" was my favorite... Karen LeCocq Good show, but you left out my now famous “Feather Cunt” (shown in the Armand Hammer show “Sexual Politics”, another show at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and in the books: “The Power of Feminists Art”, “Sexual Politics” and “A Studio of Their Own”. It recently showed in Laura Meyer’s show at CSUF “A Studio of Their Own, The 1970′s Feminist Art Experiment” that showcased the original members of Judy Chicago’s feminist art program in 1970. We did lots of vaginal art back then, but of all my pieces, “Feather Cunt” was my favorite… Karen LeCocq

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