Muses Series 4
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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 woman poet was often portrayed negatively as a witch or madwoman (as in Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar‘s 1979 study of the Victorian woman writer, The Madwoman in the Attic). This image engages with such Gothic symbolism, but the subject herself glances down, evading the gaze. The painted backdrop (and lamp to the left) hints at the artificiality of the photographic portrait; the woman poet is simply playing a role.
- Digital Copy:A digital copy exists.
- Location: Store
- Accession Number: 2015.22
- Contact: University of Stirling Art Collection
