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Fighting for gender rights from self-portrait to metamorphosis

The ancient Roman poet Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' depicts women turning into elements of the natural world. A shift from the male gaze in art occurs during the Renaissance period when women begin to represent themselves through self-portraits. By the 1970s and 1980s, self-portraits become tools that allow women to redefine themselves through transformation: they play with the metamorphosis that society had historically imposed on them, turning them into objects of male desire and stereotypes.

Luts, Karin (autor)

Tartu Art Museum

Luts, Karin (autor)

Tartu Art Museum

The Blavatnik Archive

REICHENBACH Silvia

Turin Gallery for Modern and Contemporary Art

Sherman, Cindy

Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage

Carolee Schneemann (Designer)

Shoes or no shoes

Hendrik Goltzius

Catholic University of Leuven

Atria, Institute on Gender Equality and Women's History

Atria, Institute on Gender Equality and Women's History

Shearer, AR.

Atria, Institute on Gender Equality and Women's History

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Promoter Digital Gallery