Venus revisited : reflecting sights/sites of beauty and its embodiments
Master Thesis
2006
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In this project the idealised body of Venus represents an uncomfortable whole. She symbolises the richly divergent, contrasting, and often thematic concerns of female beauty that my, work has attempted to represent. She signifies arid originates the centuries of fluctuating meaning and contesting truths about women and the way in which they are represented that are at the centre of my research - in an image that resists resolution. As the title of the body of practical work implies, Venus Revisited points to a journey of return. It refers to a recurrence of ideas about the idealised female body informed by its origins in Greek myth. Venus still informs current Western visual culture - the female body remains 'the map on which we mark our meanings' (Mullins, 1985: 331).
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 82-86).
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Van der Westhuizen, C. 2006. Venus revisited : reflecting sights/sites of beauty and its embodiments. University of Cape Town.