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Rachel Maclean: Cutting Up the Canon of Art History

Rachel Maclean: Cutting Up the Canon of Art History

A common feminist critique of the history of art is that it's a male dominated canon; the timeline of art history studded with 'old masters', rather than noted mistresses. As multimedia artist Rachel Maclean contends, throughout art history 'artists are represented as men and very often the images they make are of women, or of women's bodies', these pictures produced through the lens of, and for the delectation of, the male gaze.

In this talk, Maclean describes the ways in which her film Make Me Up (2018) responds to and unsettles this traditional story of art.

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