Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Great Regulars: Modersohn-Becker stands stripped

to the waist, cradling her pregnant belly, eyeing the viewer with a look that is at once beguiling and accusatory. Everything about the picture confronts the maleness of the tradition of which it forms a part, including its reference to Dürer's half-naked self-portrait.

from Andrew Motion: The Guardian: 'Cult of the self'

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