Muses Series 2
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- Type: Photograph
- Production Date: 2014
- Description: These images (seven in all) draw on photographs of poets Alice Meynell and Edith Sitwell which depict them in front of tapestries and painted backdrops. In these images, the woman poet blends with the artistic scene itself, suggesting that she herself is an art object. The projected words are from a poem by ‘Michael Field‘, the pseudonym of Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper, an aunt and niece who enjoyed a romantic and creative partnership during the 1870s-1910s. The poem, inspired by Leonardo da Vinci‘s La Gioconda, celebrates the ambiguous muse as a femme fatale who takes possession of those who view her. In doing so, Michael Field transform her from an object of the gaze into an active subject.
- Digital Copy:A digital copy exists.
- Location: Store
- Accession Number: 2015.20
- Contact: University of Stirling Art Collection
