Summary: <p>Welcome back to the Jo’s Art History Podcast </p> <p>Today I sit down with art historian Bryony Large for a brilliant conversation discussing the changing representation of the female figure throughout art history and what is/was considered as ‘the ideal female form.’</p> <p>This is a massive topic as you can imagine and Bryony has done an amazing job at selecting 4 corner stone works from within the Canon of Art History as a way of introducing this topic and to get you thinking about the changing perception of the female form.</p> <p>We discuss the male gaze in classical art history in <strong>Botticelli’s Birth of Venus </strong>and what is arguably believed to be the first painting ever that sees a woman own her sexuality, <strong>Manet’s Olympia.</strong></p> <p>We also discuss <strong>Jenny Saville</strong>, an artist who as Bryony so brilliantly puts it is ‘the destroyer of false fetishes’ as well as discussing the lack of representation of disabled bodies and why <strong>Marc Quinn’s Alison Lapper </strong>sculpture is so important to make you think and look again at not only what we do see, but what we do not see represented within art!</p> <p><strong>Guest:</strong></p> <p>Bryony Large</p> <p>Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/confessionsofanartjunkie/?hl=en">https://www.instagram.com/confessionsofanartjunkie/?hl=en</a></p> <p>Website: <a href="https://www.confessionsofanartjunkie.com/">https://www.confessionsofanartjunkie.com/</a></p> <p><strong>Host:</strong></p> <p>Jo McLaughlin</p> <p>Instagram: <a href="https://linktr.ee/josarthistory"><strong>https://linktr.ee/josarthistory</strong></a></p> <p>Website: https<a href="https://www.instagram.com/josarthistory"><strong>://www.instagram.com/josarthistory</strong></a></p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>Works discuss & Further Reading:</strong></p> <p><strong>1) Birth of Venus (1485/86) by Sandro Botticelli</strong></p> <p>Great Artsy Article about the Importance of Venus in culture: <a href="https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-botticellis-birth-venus-pop-culture">https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-botticellis-birth-venus-pop-culture</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.headstuff.org/culture/visual-arts/the-birth-of-venus-botticelli/">https://www.headstuff.org/culture/visual-arts/the-birth-of-venus-botticelli/</a></p> <p><strong>The male gaze</strong>:</p> <p><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=the+male+gaze+in+art&oq=the+male+gaze+in+art&aqs=chrome..69i57.4638j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8">https://www.google.com/search?q=the+male+gaze+in+art&oq=the+male+gaze+in+art&aqs=chrome..69i57.4638j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8</a></p> <p><strong>Women in Art:</strong> <a href="https://artsandculture.google.com/usergallery/the-portrayal-of-women-throughout-history/WwIyY2IMPqeoKw">https://artsandculture.google.com/usergallery/the-portrayal-of-women-throughout-history/WwIyY2IMPqeoKw</a></p> <p><strong>2) Olympia (1863) by Edouard Manet</strong></p> <p>Article: <a href="https://www.widewalls.ch/magazine/edouard-manet-olympia">https://www.widewalls.ch/magazine/edouard-manet-olympia</a></p> <p><strong>3) Propped (1992) by Jenny Saville</strong></p> <p>Articles: <a href="https://www.artlyst.com/features/jenny-saville-propped-1992-significant-works-sue-hubbard/">https://www.artlyst.com/features/jenny-saville-propped-1992-significant-works-sue-hubbard/</a></p> <p><strong>4) Alison Lapper Pregnant (2005) by Marc Quinn (sculpture)</strong></p> <p>Guardian Article: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/sep/13/arts.artsnews">https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/sep/13/arts.artsnews</a></p> <p>Alison Lapper Website: <a href="https://www.alilapper.com/about">https://www.alilapper.com/about</a></p> --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jos-art-history-podcast/message
