purejuice

he's also saying that the zeitgeist of violence by women, or the empowerment of women represented by their parity (which he thinks has been achieved by bishop????) should have been reflected in popular or low art. i'm not at expert at that, but i'd say wonder woman et al, plus rocker chicks, plus in the fine arts painters and sculptors of my and previous generations (bourgeois, the polish sculptor magdalena whose last name i can never spell, abakanowicz? mostly remarkably the painter of newborn babies...whose name i'm not remembering, and other late 20thc reconsiderations of "beauty" and the male gaze. indeed that whole show of high art, for which i'll get the url, was addressing the issue of "beauty" as a perp criterion. there's the young black woman who does silhouette paper cut art of lynchings, and the whole idea that non-perp art has to address victimization even in precepts of "beauty" is something that tanenhaus, in a remarkably philistine display, doesn't come close to addressing. art is addressing the problem, high and low, perhaps in terms too subtle for A MAJOR ARTS EDITOR to understand? yow.
marlene dumas is the high art painter who is doing violence in the flesh or decay, fascinating.
Regarding Beauty (http://www.amazon.com/Regarding-Beauty-View-Twentieth-Century/dp/3893227792) is the name of the show which addressed perp art as "male gaze", incredibly touching and humane and full of hope.