WOMEN IN THE PICTURE by Catherine McCormack women irish writers Bacon talks about his aims

Bacon talks about his aims as a painter and ways in which he works

and to open up fresh and stimulating ways of understanding his paintings

revealing the core of his talent: his skill for marrying extreme contradictions and translating them into immediately recognizable images

All passionately believed that even in the age of new media

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WOMEN IN THE PICTURE by Catherine McCormack women irish writers Bacon talks about his aimsA PERFECT PIN UP, A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS, A SAINTLY MOTHER, A FEMME FATALE Women's identity has long been stifled by a limited set of archetypes, found everywhere in pictures from art history's classics to advertising, while women artists have been overlooked and held back from shaping more empowering roles. In this impassioned book, art historian Catherine McCormack asks us to look again at what these images have told us to value, opening up our most