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Famous Rapes

From Mesopotamia to Steubenville
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It is a simple truth that throughout history, certain rapes have become "famous." Old Master painters depicted sexual violence again and again, generally representing it as the transcendent work of heroes. Traditional Catholic stories teach that it is better to die during an attempted rape than it is to survive a completed one. In19th- and 20th-century America, notorious fear about the sexuality of black men wreaked havoc. From the days of Reconstruction through to the Central Park Jogger, wild accusations justified the literal and metaphoric lynching of men perceived as threats to white power. Meanwhile, a revolution did take place. Conversations became public. Laws changed. Andrea Baker's project is to reflect on the history of how rape has been depicted. She draws images of sexual assault from both art history and contemporary visual culture, remaking them as spare white paper cutouts against a paper-packing-tape background. The swath of time from Mesopotamia to the present day is flattened and rolled out in unflinching continuity. As difficult as the material is, we do see progress within a history that is not always as distant we might prefer, and Baker is insistent that we celebrate our accomplishments, even as we continue to evolve.

Author Biography:

Andrea Baker is an artist and writer. Her most recent full-length collection of poetry is Each Thing Unblurred is Broken (Omnidawn, 2015). She has been a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellow, and, in 2005, she was the recipient of the Slope Editions Book Prize for Like Wind Loves a Window. Her cut-out work has been featured in The Rumpus and anthologized in Family Resemblance: An Anthology of Eight Hybrid Literary Genres (Rose Metal Press, 2015). In addition to her work on the page, she is a subject in the documentary, A Rubberband Is an Unlikely Instrument. Her interest in visual and material culture is fed by her employment valuing arts and antiques. She lives in New York City.
Release date NZ
November 22nd, 2019
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Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Illustrations
195 illustrations
Pages
252
Dimensions
216x279x13
ISBN-13
9781621342250
Product ID
32440267

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