Basia Sliwinska: 1 book
The Female Body in the Looking-Glass
Contemporary Art, Aesthetics and Genderland
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
In his writing on the 'mirror stage', the psychoanalytic theorist Jacques Lacan describes the female body as lacking: a mere symptom of man, an object constructed by male desire. However, what happens if the woman in art follows Jean Baudrillard's advice to 'swallow the mirror', and is made real?...
