Thanks for introducing Levinas into this discussion, Sheila. It is indeed fascinating: the painter controlling his subject, and then the more mature woman studying her younger self as “other.”
Once facial features combine with nudity, the painting may lose sight of the humanity of the other, and perverse aesthetics may take over from any ethical approach.
Thanks for introducing Levinas into this discussion, Sheila. It is indeed fascinating: the painter controlling his subject, and then the more mature woman studying her younger self as “other.”
Once facial features combine with nudity, the painting may lose sight of the humanity of the other, and perverse aesthetics may take over from any ethical approach.
Looking forward to this. I'm sure it's a gem. I've read Kishkan's work before.
Mesmerizing, both the author's words and the reviewer's. I thought of The Song of Wandering Aengus, but this is so much darker.
Thank you, Michael Greenstein, for such a thoughtful and attentive review.
A fascinating thing, the fixed human gaze. “Looking so we can turn what we look at into ‘the other.’ The ‘Not Me.’”
“Each is other to each,” Levinas claims. The “primordial grasp. Our tendency to control, process, reduce the other.”