Reclaiming the Matriarchy─A Study of the Paintings by Leonora Carrington
| Autor: | Fang-Lan Wen, 溫芳蘭 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 93 This paper mainly discusses paintings of the English Surrealist painter Leonora Carrington. Carrington’s art is famous for the tendency of the occult, and her reputation is based on the restoration of Goddess worship. Her paintings reveal a fusion of the matriarchy myth and hermeticism, and magically revive the old matriarchies. This paper will focus on Carrington’s horse paintings in early period, images of Goddess worship in middle period and her crone paintings in the later stage. I will try to deduce that Carrington’s art successfully lives up to Goddess worship religion. Meanwhile, I will also provide Carrington’s autobiographic evidences as supplement to interpret her paintings. From the perspective of feminism, I will set up the importance of Carrington in art history by analyzing visual images by her and demonstrate her contributions to the human world. In analyzing the transformation of the Goddess images in her early, middle and later stage, this paper will highlight Carrington’s extraordinary achievements of subverting the patriarchy in three strategies: the masquerade, the Goddess worship, and the crone image. In using these three tactics, Carrington finally collapses the construction of the patriarchy and attains the restoration of matriarchy in her marvelous surrealist paintings. |
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