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Visit us at the Yale University Art Gallery on December 8 for the Odds and Ends Book Fair!

 Books by artists and art-book makers are on display and for sale in the Gallery lobby. The fair includes books from small independent publishers who focus on art, architecture, photography, and design; rare and limited-edition books and zines printed in short runs and showcasing a range of publishing endeavors; and artists’ books by students and alumni of the Yale University School of Art and the Rhode Island School of Design, in Providence, Rhode Island.

“...as contemporary feminist theorists have argued [...] the genitalia are cultural terrain that are made to conform to identificatory norms via a range of culturally specific operations…” (bold added)

–Sullivan, Nikki. "The Price to Pay for Our Common Good”: Genital Modification and the Somatechnologies of Cultural (In) Difference." Social Semiotics 17, no. 3 (2007): 399.

  

Belly Landscape

Nude in the Water 
(Torso, Thighs)

1980


Karin Rosenthal (American, born in 1945 American)


  This piece is actually in the Yale University Art Gallery collection – it was one of the many and diverse "landscapes" we looked at recently in my American Studies seminar (w/ prof. Laura Barraclough).

  What does it mean for a body to be depicted as a landscape? Does this image destabilize our conceptions of bodies or does it not? What does Sullivan (or contemporary feminists) do by using the term “terrain”?

  Some juxtaposition for your thoughts.