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So much art demands the flesh obey, the body must be compositonalized. Picasso rearranges women into angles and we declare modernity. Higher powers command women El Greco, and several generations etiolate into pale heroin chic. You serve a higher purpose: conforming to beauty. There's a healthy dose of skepticism in the air, that the demands of art may serve no other purpose than watching people conform.
So much art demands the flesh obey, the body must be compositonalized. Picasso rearranges women into angles and we declare modernity. Higher powers command women El Greco, and several generations etiolate into pale heroin chic. You serve a higher purpose: conforming to beauty. There's a healthy dose of skepticism in the air, that the demands of art may serve no other purpose than watching people conform.
I'm not convinced art doesn't just love women in culturally approved bondage gear: Amalia Ulman at The Gallery at El Centro, Anna Uddenberg at The Perimeter,Cindy Sherman at Metro Pictures, Maryam Hoseini at High Art, Koak at Altman Siegel, Lisa Yuskavage at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Louisa Gagliardi at Open Forum