Papers by Katarina MacLeod
Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon, 2018
Routledge eBooks, Jan 18, 2023
Global Labour and the Migrant Premium, 2018
Konsthistorisk tidskrift/Journal of Art History, 2021
Summary This article chronicles the French critic Pierre Restany and his 1967 exhibition Superlun... more Summary This article chronicles the French critic Pierre Restany and his 1967 exhibition Superlund at Lunds Konsthall in Sweden. Throughout his life and work Restany travelled the globe and engaged in local art scenes, often described as peripheries. But when did Lund, a town in southern Sweden, become the periphery, and with reference to which centre? When Restany engaged with the so-called peripheries in order to escape the art scene in Paris, he also brought with him Paris as a symbolic centre. This article explores how the critic and his exhibition conflate the dichotomy in art historiography between centre and periphery in the intersection between place, people and art.
Konstnarsparet Unica Zurn och Hans Bellmers liv skuggades av bade personliga och historiska trage... more Konstnarsparet Unica Zurn och Hans Bellmers liv skuggades av bade personliga och historiska tragedier. Helena Erikssons bok om deras gemensamma liv och verk ar en vindlande historia om 1900-talet.
of proofreading. Tanja Potok, for looking after our baby Elsa as if she had been her own. Jan Wad... more of proofreading. Tanja Potok, for looking after our baby Elsa as if she had been her own. Jan Wadstein, for always being there, taking an interest, babysitting, cooking, problem solving academic issues, and most of all for always looking on the bright side. Christina Hagenfeldt, to whom I'm grateful for endless emotional and intellectual support, many hours of babysitting, and for showing me how to never give up, never mind what. Our lovely daughter demonstrated at a very tender age a capacity to entertain herself, without that skill this work would have been much delayed. Most of all, I want to thank Alex MacLeod, who has given me courage, love and support when I've most needed it, and to whom I dedicate this book with love. made the woman-child the perfect muse for the male surrealists. 3 The adolescent moment of sexual ambiguity has been a persistent theme in the history of art, particularly over the last century. Some examples are Edvard Munch's (1863-1944) anxiety ridden Puberty, 1894-95, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's (1880-1938) studies of Marzella and Fränzi, and Balthus's (1908-2001) erotically charged portraits of young girls and adolescents. This type of sexually charged girl seems to dominate how girls appear 12 Lena Cronqvist: Reflections of Girls Girls and Popular Culture Cronqvist's images reflect pressing issues in contemporary society and I consider it no coincidence that her theme of girls surfaced when it did. 5 In the 1990s the girl as a figure was visible as never before in western society, popular culture and visual arts. The alarming and heightened awareness of the atrocities of child abuse, pornography and honour murders were impossible to escape. These reports were all too often delivered through the mainstream media. Yet, not much points to the 1990s as a time when these violations of human rights actually increased, but rather that society suddenly acquired better awareness of it. As a consequence, today, instead of being taboo these issues can now be brought into the light and dealt with openly. In the following chapters I will argue that Cronqvist's girl figures have several faces; they draw on a distorted Lolita type and they also incorporate a visual tradition of the ugly and grumpy child, as mentioned above. The first type is far more common in popular culture, for, as Marianne Sinclair points out in Hollywood Lolita, the Lolita figure existed long before Vladimir Nabokov gave her a name and pointed out a genre, with his novel Lolita, 1955. Sinclair's many examples of famous 'Hollywood Lolitas' range over time; they differ in age and are as diverse as Shirley Temple, Mary Pickford, Nastassia Kinski, and Jodie Foster. 6 This tendency has by no means diminished, and the 1990s saw a steady stream of girls, perhaps most notably in fashion, where the so-called heroine chic fashioned models (i.e. under-aged, painfully thin and anaemic girls) became popular towards the middle of the decade. 7 However, it is not all doom and gloom concerning the way in which girls are portrayed. In the last ten years there has been an upsurge of powerful images of girls. Not only have the representations become more varied and powerful, girls themselves claim more space in art and media. 8 In the film Ghost World, 2001, based on a cartoon, the main character is the kooky and slightly weird Enid, who is sexually active but not sexualised. 9 Another example, which focuses on the complexities of a girl's transition from being a child to a teenager, is the 16
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