Muses Series 6
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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. This image recalls a Victorian photograph of the Pre-Raphaelite muse Jane Morris. She was posed by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the painter with whom she was having an affair. In both photographs, the model‘s boldly stares into the camera with a slightly wearied expression. How tiresome to sit still for hours on end, fulfilling another person‘s fantasies! But through this obstinate expression, the muse manages to convey a sense of her own autonomy.
- Dimensions: Framed: 83 cm (H) x 62 cm (W). Unframed: 57.5cm (H) x 39.5cm (W)
- Digital Copy:A digital copy exists.
- Location: Store
- Accession Number: 2015.24
- Contact: University of Stirling Art Collection
