Does it matter who is looking?
Who decides what is feminine?
Who is telling the story?
Is beauty skindeep?
Who decides what is feminine?
Who is telling the story?
Is beauty skindeep?
No paint, nor powder, needs that skin of thineShroud not the beauty in goods of cost,
For only know, my beaut'ous Valentine,
Beauty, when unadorned's adorned the most.
Carl E. Miksch, M.D. Jefferson Medical College Faculty of 1923
Franz Hanfstaeng after Joseph Stielermezzotint before 1858
August Strobel. Kgl. Residenz zu München No. 12
From an exhibition held last year at Bryn Mawr College, the Picturing Women website was established to display sketches, cartoons, photographs and rare book illustrations of women through history. It is primarily a teaching aid in which evocative questions are posted alongside images arranged in thematic vignettes. There are filmed sequences from interviews and performances occurring during the original exhibition, an extensive online link list and library bibliography, ecards and lesson plans. There's quite a bit to see here.
Picturing Women features material from Bryn Mawr College, the Rosenbach Museum & Libary and The Library Company of Philadelphia. (flash, music initially)
2 comments :
That's really nice.
Thanks for thinking about women.
Fortunately, 'thinking about women' is not something into which I must put much effort!
'-)
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