The Ambivalent Art of Katherine Anne Porter


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Katherine Anne Porter: The Life of an Artist

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Amazon Inspire Digital Educational Resources. The American equivalent to Dorothy Parker, Katherine Anne Porter was an American essayist and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist known in her time for her short stories, though committed to posterity for her first and only novel Ship of Fools. An Evening with Dave Dictor. The canvas is her body but at the same time it is a canvas used as a vehicle for male inscription. Related Video Shorts 0 Upload your video. Try the Kindle edition and experience these great reading features:

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The Ambivalent Art of Katherine Anne Porter

During a life that spanned ninety years, Katherine Anne Porter () witnessed dramatic and intensely debated changes in the gender roles of American. Read the full-text online edition of The Ambivalent Art of Katherine Anne Porter ( ).

A Little Stolen Holiday pp. Rumors and Representations pp. Gender and Costume pp. To put it bluntly, for example; the high fashion and sexually liberated flapper girls of the s were not exactly what the suffragettes had in mind when they began their movement.

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Biographically Porter and Gaga also share a striking array of similarities, so much to the point that one would think that Gaga is actually Porter reincarnated. Though they both came from radically different backgrounds, both were nostalgic about their family heritage, Gaga from Italian lineage and Porter of Old Southern legacy Porter was literally granddaughter of the Confederacy , and often spoke of it with great reverence.

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Gaga and Porter also surrounded themselves with artists of diverse mediums as a way of both inspiring and igniting their own work. Generational disenfranchisement left Porter to constantly question her identity as an artist, as it was commonly held in those days that the idea of the female artist was little more than an oxymoron. The canvas is her body but at the same time it is a canvas used as a vehicle for male inscription.

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Both borrow heavily from history and romanticize the exotic with particular regard to Mexico and the Orient. For while both tell radically different stories, the subject matter of each oeuvre also dabble heavily in religious iconography and the masochism within the ascetic ritual of Catholicism and its aesthetic.

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To name a few. Madonna and Gaga are two sides of the same coin; though the one intracle difference is that Gaga utilizes the aforementioned images as part of the artististic experience which may touch upon sexuality but is not exclusively focused on it.