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Venus revisited : reflecting sights/sites of beauty and its embodiments
Includes bibliographical references (p. 82-86).
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Michaelis School of Fine Art
2015
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| author | Van der Westhuizen, Cara |
| author2 | Inggs, Stephen |
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| description | Includes bibliographical references (p. 82-86). |
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| institution | University of Cape Town (South Africa) |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/12520 Venus revisited : reflecting sights/sites of beauty and its embodiments Van der Westhuizen, Cara Inggs, Stephen Fine Art Includes bibliographical references (p. 82-86). In this project the idealised body of Venus represents an uncomfortable whole. She symbolises the richly divergent, contrasting, and often thematic concerns of female beauty that my, work has attempted to represent. She signifies arid originates the centuries of fluctuating meaning and contesting truths about women and the way in which they are represented that are at the centre of my research - in an image that resists resolution. As the title of the body of practical work implies, Venus Revisited points to a journey of return. It refers to a recurrence of ideas about the idealised female body informed by its origins in Greek myth. Venus still informs current Western visual culture - the female body remains 'the map on which we mark our meanings' (Mullins, 1985: 331). 2015-02-17T13:05:18Z 2015-02-17T13:05:18Z 2006 Master Thesis Masters MA http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12520 eng application/pdf Michaelis School of Fine Art Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Fine Art Van der Westhuizen, Cara Venus revisited : reflecting sights/sites of beauty and its embodiments |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Venus revisited : reflecting sights/sites of beauty and its embodiments |
| title_full | Venus revisited : reflecting sights/sites of beauty and its embodiments |
| title_fullStr | Venus revisited : reflecting sights/sites of beauty and its embodiments |
| title_full_unstemmed | Venus revisited : reflecting sights/sites of beauty and its embodiments |
| title_short | Venus revisited : reflecting sights/sites of beauty and its embodiments |
| title_sort | venus revisited reflecting sights sites of beauty and its embodiments |
| topic | Fine Art |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12520 |
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