The Hungry Vagina

Colour Me Dead - Chapter 5

How the body threatens, devastates, dessicates, devours

(i) The World As Hole

1. 2. 3.

4. 5. 6.

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(ii) The Hole As World

8. 9. 10.

11. 12. 13.

14. 15.

(iii) The Hole as Whole

16. 17. 18.

19. 20.

1. Jean Baptiste Greuze’s The Broken Pitcher (1711)
2. Jean Antoine Houdon’s Winter (Frileuse) (1787)
3. Henry Singleton’s Ariel On A Bat’s Back (1819)
4. Frederick Sandys’ Helen Of Troy (1867)
5. John Collier’s After The Murder (1882)
6. Pierre Bonnard’s Salome (1890 c)
7. Herbert James Draper’s A Water Baby (1900)

8. Gustave Courbet’s The Origin Of Life (1866)
9. Alfred Kubin’s The Road To Hell (1900)
10. Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain (1917)
11. Man Ray’s Woman With Long Hair (1929)
12. Otto Dix’s Nude Girl On A Fur (1932)
13. André Masson’s Gradiva (1939)
14. Roberto Matta’s Xscape & The Ego (1945)
15. Hans Bellmer’s Je Suis God (1946)

16. Lee Bontecou’s Flit (1959)
17. Niki de Saint Phalle’s Hon (1966)
18. Tom Wesselmann’s Great American Nude #88 (1967)
19. Magdalena Abakanowicz’s Abaka Red (1969)
20. Valie Export’s Action Pants: Genital Panic (1969)