{"id":11638,"date":"2020-08-05T01:00:26","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T07:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11638"},"modified":"2020-08-16T15:50:08","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T21:50:08","slug":"paganism-art-and-fashion-feminist-interpretation-of-witches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11638","title":{"rendered":"Paganism, Art, And Fashion: “Feminist Interpretation of Witches”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sheela-na-gig figure interpreted by the Swedish artist Monica Sj\u00f6\u00f6 (1938\u20132005).<\/p><\/div>\n

In her artlcle for The Pomegranate<\/em>, Katy Deepwell,<\/a> editor of the feminist art journal n.paradoxa<\/a>, <\/em>discusses “Feminist Interpretations of Witches and the Witch Craze in Contemporary Art by Women<\/a>.” (Free download at this time \u2014 and the illustrations are in color where possible.)<\/p>\n

In her abstract, she writes,<\/p>\n

This article considers feminist interpretations of the witch in contemporary art in relation to the witch craze: examples are by Georgia Horgan, Ann-Sofi Sid\u00e9n, Mathilde ter Heijne, Monica Sj\u00f6\u00f6, Tania Antoshina, Helen Chadwick, Jesse Jones, and Carolee Schneemann. The argument explores the ways that the figure of the witch is analyzed in three different feminist critiques of patriarchy, and subsequently pursues how these ideas have been taken up in contemporary art by these women artists. The differences between three authors: Matilda Joslyn Gage (1893); Mary Daly (1984); and Silvia Federici (2004) are highlighted and contrasted to other historians\u2019 analyses from the last thirty years of the fate of women accused as witches during the European Witch Hunt between the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries. This was a paper given at Misogyny: Witches and Wicked Bodies, Institute of Contemporary Arts, (ICA) London in March 2015.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In her artlcle for The Pomegranate, Katy Deepwell, editor of the feminist art journal n.paradoxa, discusses “Feminist Interpretations of Witches and the Witch Craze in Contemporary Art by Women.” (Free download at this time \u2014 and the illustrations are in color where possible.) 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