Dear Shaded Viewers and Diane,
When it comes to the subject, a sudden silence, deep and wary and so filled with meaning as only women's silences can be, seems to unfurl all along art history. And it isn't really about penises, not really, not since the seventies at least, it's the "beautiful" what really shuts us up. There certainly is no lack of phallic images in feminist art, but they would either be standing there in hostile deportment or with a provocative mocking intent. What Barbara Polla wonders about instead, in the just released Tout