Jospehine wrote:
>The better artists are the ones who go
>beyond this difference, and the women who apply a male
>aesthetic to their work are the ones who gain better
>recognition.
You might also say that the better male artists are those who incorporate
a "female" aesthetic into masculinity. The Romantics did this; and the
idea of the Muse is an old and fertile one in poetry, also the image of
one who like Teresias is both male and female. Art is surely reaching
towards some androgynity - years ago I toyed with the idea of writing a
series of essays "Beyond Gender", but I never got around to it.
When I think of "female", I think of strength, gentleness, humour, wit,
sensuality, generosity, rationality, defiance, resistance to pain,
anarchy, mess, desire... I want to resist the diminutive, which is what
men have imposed/projected on women.
Best
Alison
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