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The mode here was one of appropriation and digital manipulation. I came across some headshots a Magnum photographer made of his wife in the 1940s that lent themselves beautifully to surreal alterations of all kinds, and especially an 'exquisite cadavers' kind of bizarre juxtaposition or distortion. I re-photographed some of the images then removed certain features--here the nose and mouth, and inverted the eyes.. I borrowed the torso here with fox fur stole, from an early 20th-c. self-portrait by Tove Jansson--the novelist and inventor of the Moomins., whom I greatly admire. I brought the two elements together through digital collage, a la Man Ray or Dora Maar or John Stezaker. The intense gaze of the eyes here--even when upside-down--was very attractive to me visually--I always enjoy images that involve a 'queering' of the world. The image is available as an archival inkjet print in a limited edition of 10
2019
Digital on Paper
5
13 W x 19 H x 0.1 D in
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The writer, critic, and visual artist Terry Castle--once described by the late Susan Sontag as '"the most expressive, most enlightening literary critic at large today'--- has taught at Stanford University since 1983. Her scholarly interests include literature and the visual arts,, the history of photography, modernism, Gothic fiction, Jane Austen, English art and culture of the 1920s and 1930s, gay and lesbian writing, and autobiography and memoir, She has published nine books on diverse subjects, including the prize-winning collection, The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall (2003). She is also a well-known essayist and has written frequently for the London Review of Books, the Atlantic, Slate, the New Republic, Times Literary Supplement, New York Times Book Review, and other periodicals. Her latest collection of essays, The Professor and Other Writings, was published by HarperCollins in 2010. She has written about art--particularly photography, the Bloomsbury Group, Agnes Martin and Georgia O'Keeffe, and Outsider Art--in various major publications. Art plays an increasingly important role in Castle's creative life. As an artist she works in collage and mixed media, photography, gouache and acrylic, chalk pastel, and digital imagery. A number of her works have been reproduced in magazines and she has provided cover imagery for several trade and university Publishers in both the U.K. and the U.S.. In her spare time, she is a music, book and postcard collector and a miniature dachshund enthusiast. She lives in San Francisco. (my artwork blog), castle/cgi-bin/wordpress/ (my personal and professional website), A blog devoted to my postcard, vernacular photography, and ephemera collections.
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