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Sex and Politics. Spiegelbilder weiblicher Sichtbarkeit in den 1960er Jahren

2014; De Gruyter; Volume: 32; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1515/fs-2014-0211

ISSN

2365-9920

Autores

Gerda Breuer,

Tópico(s)

Communism, Protests, Social Movements

Resumo

With the name Profumo as title of her art object, a simple mirror, the German artist Rosemarie Trockel 1991 evoked an almost unbound chain of associations. On the one hand dating back to a concrete event in the 1960s in England, the socalled Profumo Affair that forced the British minister of war to resign because of his relationship with the callgirl Christine Keeler, the perception of this event on the other hand was subject of contradictory attitudes towards the gender regime. During this time of increasing sexual liberation, traditional patterns were overturned on a wide scale. To conceptualize all these possible dimensions of interpretation even art had to problematize the format; in this case Trockel chose a mirror as metaphor of the subjective approaches and displaced the conceptualization in the perception of the viewer.

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