Six Images In Search Of An Exhibition VIII

Not Thinking Of England: Six Centuries Of The Gynecological Gaze

Titian (1485-1576) - Venus of Urbino, 1538

Rembrandt (1606-1669) - Jupiter and Antiope, 1659

François Boucher (1703 – 1770) - Leda and the Swan, c. 1740

Edouard Manet (1832-1883) - Olympia, 1863




Pierre et Gilles (b. 1949 & 1953) - Nina Hagen, 1983




Vanessa Beecroft (b. 1969) - VB45, 2001

'Reciprocity of sensation is not possible because to share is to be robbed.'

Angela Carter

The Week In Review

Films:

Fanny and Alexander, 1982 - d. Ingmar Bergman
1900, 1976 - d. Bernardo Bertolucci
The Leopard, 1963 - d. Luchino Visconti

Television:

Six Feet Under: Season 4

Books:

The Brutality of Fact: Interviews with Francis Bacon - David Sylvester
Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation - Gilles Deleuze
The Colour of Time: Claude Monet - Virginia Spate
Constable: The Great Landscapes - ed. Anne Lyles
Monet and Japan - David Broomfield, Gary Hickey, Shigemi Inaga Akiko Mabushi and Virginia Spate
Monet by Himself - Richard Kendall
The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings - James D. Ganz and Richard Kendall

Articles:

Birth of the Seaside - Andrew Lambirth
Impressions of Normandy - Susannah Woolmer
Nature Transforming Itself - Jeffrey Myers
The Sea, The Sea - Laura Gascoigne
The Unknown Monet - Lindsay Rothwell

Music:

Sonic Investigations Into The Trivial - Essendon Airport
Music To See Through - David Chesworth
OHM+: The Early Gurus Of Electronic Music - Various
Possible Musics and Music For Airports - Brian Eno

Addendum I

The Mother Of All Gynecological Gazes

Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) - The Origin of the World, 1866