Venus revisited : reflecting sights/sites of beauty and its embodiments

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).

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Michaelis School of Fine Art

Year dc:date.issued

2006

Author dc:creator

• Van der Westhuizen, Cara

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Inggs, Stephen

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12520

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/12520