Projektnummer

0069672

Zusammenfassung

Although motherhood is one of the most prevalent subjects in the history of Western art, it often conveys a one-dimensional and skewed picture of that experience. Indeed, the metaphor of the artist as mother-like, "birthing" the work of art, has been a longstanding refrain of art's power, underscoring the extent to which non-mothers have dominated this vocabulary. In recent decades, however, the situation has changed dramatically: for the first time in art's history, the artist can also be a mother, and she begins to make very different pictures of maternal experience, emphasizing a mu...