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Art & Motherhood
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This blog is a series of thinking pieces based on my current research on
art & motherhood.
What is a mother? What could a mother be?
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Arlette
Dec 18, 20244 min read
Now You See Us
Now You See Us - British Art and the Feminine.
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Arlette
Jun 11, 20244 min read
PRETTY VIOLENT
“The history of women in the past hundred years is based on the very dangerous ‘crossing of the boundary’ imposed by patriarchal...
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Arlette
Feb 27, 20243 min read
Shame, Shame, Shame!
"Women are taught to hate themselves." My friend Lucy “(...) unrealistic and idealised notions of motherhood that circulate (and) are...
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Arlette
Nov 23, 20233 min read
"The identity of the women is unclear."
"I decided I’m going to give you pregnancy in your face — and that’s what I did." Renée Cox I love Tate Britain Tate Britain sits right...
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Arlette
Nov 13, 20231 min read
The sacred halo of motherhood
Contemporary women have been assigned a destiny: that of home carers and mothers. And for them to accept it smoothly, we crowned...
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Arlette
Sep 12, 20233 min read
I AM A FEMINIST!
"I’m neither ‘pro-women’ nor ‘anti-men’. I’m just 'Thumbs up for the six billion'." Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman " Feminism is not...
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Arlette
Sep 6, 20232 min read
SO UNFAIR!
"What's fair ain't necessarily right." Toni Morrison, Beloved "Mum, it's so unfair!" My 7 year-old child "Don't talk to me about...
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Arlette
Aug 24, 20233 min read
When Mary Frees The Nipple
"Cover this breast which I cannot behold: Such a sight can offend one's soul. And it brings forth guilty thoughts." Tartuffe, Molière...
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Arlette
Aug 24, 20231 min read
The Pregnant Woman - a Western Taboo?
Pregnancy in Art studies on the representation of pregnant women in Western art show that, after the Renaissance, pregnancy slowly became...
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