The performer who wrote ‘MeToo’ on Gustave Courbet’s The Origin of the World is right to think the painting is misogynistic: the model doesn’t even have a face!
‘A look at just how far we haven’t come’ … Gustave Courbet’s L’Origine du Monde , defaced by performer Deborah de Robertis.‘A look at just how far we haven’t come’ … Gustave Courbet’s L’Origine du Monde , defaced by performer Deborah de Robertis.Jacques Lacan
The woman in the painting never lost her head. She was there all along – all of her. Saying so really matters Lacan owned the painting for three decades but hid it behind a custom-made wooden screen. Until the late 1980s, even experts doubted it still existed. All anyone knew of it were historic accounts by pundits who’d seen it and been revulsed and reproductions in black and white. These were so grainy that Nochlin highlighted how indistinguishable this made the work from basic newsstand porn.show in 1988, Nochlin wrote a whole paper about the efforts to locate it.
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