EPISODE TWO
Original Audio 25 Aug 21
Episode Two: Surreal portraiture—-Muse or artist? Can you fall in love with a picture? Can you fall in love with someone from a picture? What about self-portrait? How do you conjure the image of yourself? How much do you reveal? How much do you hide? The image of women in much of recorded history has so often been through the male gaze, defining women according to what value they were to him. How do women see/draw/paint/write themselves and for whom?
Audio [removed for YT]:
Old Boyfriends: Crystal Gale, One from the Heart
I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend: Petty Booka, Let’s Talk Dirty in Hawaiian
Trouble in Mind: Odetta, Best of
Fear Not: Ulla Suokko, Bridge of Light
Vallåtar från Gammelboning (Herding Calls from Gammelboning, Sweden): Susanne Rosenberg, Wizard Women of the North
Manaus: Tellu, Wizard Women of the North
Sunny Side Down: Lys Guillorn, Sunny Side Down EP
Texts:
Laura: Vera Caspary
Surrealist Women’s Writing: A Critical Exploration: ed. Anna Watz
Leonor Fini Catalogue Raisonné of Oil Paintings: eds. Richard Overstreet & Neil Zukerman
Shirley: Charlotte Brontë
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