January 2011
3 posts
More forgoten women
Yale Alumni Magazine: Anonymous was a Woman (Jan/Feb 2011) Virginia Woolf wrote those words about the entire realm of literary creation, not about that special subset of it called “quotations”—the minting of concise snippets so eloquent or insightful as to be memorable. But those of us who dig deeply for the earliest sources of well-known lines discover, time and again, that here, too,...
Post-Feminist Anonymous Woman Reclamation Act
The Smart Set: Women in Art - January 24, 2011 My interest perhaps lies in the fact that we are all participating in the Post-Feminist Anonymous Woman Reclamation Act. For centuries, it was men who defined women. Male painters showed us what women look like. Male poets and novelists told us how they feel, what they think, what they desire. Some of it, of course, was a more successful ventriloquist...
And yes I did just add the Bayeaux Tapestry to the... →