Critical Writing Index

Self2Selfie: George Vasey on self-portraiture and feminist art

by George Vasey

Art Monthly, Nov. 2013, no. 371, pp. 5-8

Author George Vasey writes about feminist artists who engage in portraiture in the age of the selfie. Vasey highlights that historical feminist beliefs such as "the personal is political" and "gender is enacted through rituals in time" are still at the heart of newer feminist works. As the artists engage in taking selfies, they view their cameras as weapons against new anxieties towards the body within a capitalist environment. Vasey explores questions such as "what are the legacies of these strategies to a younger generation of female artists?" and "How have the problematics of representation been affected by further technological entanglement?"

ITEM 2013.127 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

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