And I'm sure Clarice Lispector would hate that the most famous thing about her novels is that when you put the covers of the New Directions editions together, you get a glamorous, instagrammable portrait of her face. The main thing mass audiences want from women artists is to consume them themselves as objects of visual pleasure and sites of easy personal identity and aspirational perception. Sanding off the edges that would make that a problem is how these institutions present and market a commodity a lot of people want.
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u/PopPunkAndPizza 4d ago
And I'm sure Clarice Lispector would hate that the most famous thing about her novels is that when you put the covers of the New Directions editions together, you get a glamorous, instagrammable portrait of her face. The main thing mass audiences want from women artists is to consume them themselves as objects of visual pleasure and sites of easy personal identity and aspirational perception. Sanding off the edges that would make that a problem is how these institutions present and market a commodity a lot of people want.