Emeritus Prof Christopher May on Nostr: Sylvia Sleigh's white male ‘Harem’ #painting titled 'The Turkish Bath' (1973) ...
Sylvia Sleigh's white male ‘Harem’ #painting titled 'The Turkish Bath' (1973) included her husband.
As a direct critique/response to Ingres' work of the same name (which included a naked portrait of his young wife), its right on the #feminist point...
Sleigh herself remains one of a number of female #artists who have been often been ignored by a male-oriented #arthistory
a promised new monograph (as yet still delayed) may well put the record straight!
#orientalism
#WomensArt
As a direct critique/response to Ingres' work of the same name (which included a naked portrait of his young wife), its right on the #feminist point...
Sleigh herself remains one of a number of female #artists who have been often been ignored by a male-oriented #arthistory
a promised new monograph (as yet still delayed) may well put the record straight!
#orientalism
#WomensArt