The Impotent Rage

Colour Me Dead - Chapter 10

How the artist declares, condems, denounces, destroys

(i) The Threatening Body

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(ii) The Body Hateful

6. 7. 8.

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(iii) The Body Destroyed

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1. Hans Baldung’s Three Witches (1514 c)
2. Artemisia Gentileschi’s Judith Beheading Holofernes (1612-1621)
3. Francisco Goya’s Brigand Murdering A Woman (1808-1811)
4. August Leopold Egg’s Past and Present (1858)
5. Albert von Keller’s Witch Burning (1891)

6. Emmanuel Frémiet’s Gorilla Carrying Off A Woman (1887)
7. Auguste Rodin’s Balzac, 2nd Study For Nude F (1896)
8. Auguste Rodin’s Iris, Messenger Of The Gods (1891)
9. Jan Frans De Boever’s Waves (1905)
10. Francis Picabia’s Dances At The Spring (1912)
11. Egon Schiele’s Eros (1911)

12. Pablo Picasso’s The Rape (1940)
13. Andre Masson’s El Pianotauro (1937))
14. Jackson Pollock’s Man With A Knife (1938-1940 c)
15. George Grosz’s Artist And Model In The Dunes (1940 c)
16. Maria Martins’ Eighth Veil (1948)
17. Yoko Ono’s Cut Piece (1964-1965)
18. Otto Mühl’s 12 Actions (1971-1972)
19. Vito Acconci’s Shadow Play (1970)