Tag: John Berger

Postcards in Isolation 11: Zinaida Serebriakova’s At the Dressing Table, 1909 and Dorothea Tanning’s Self Portrait, 1944

  Sian Norris

Sian Norris reflects on the female gaze as captured in Zinaida Serebriakova’s At the Dressing Table, 1909, and when looking at Dorothea Tanning’s Self-Portrait, 1944, she considers the lack of freedom we have during lockdown.

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The Renaissance Nude at the Royal Academy, London

  Miriam Al Jamil

Renowned works by Titian, da Vinci, Dürer and Raphael feature in the Royal Academy’s recent exhibition, The Renaissance Nude, all of which throw light on the female as well as male gaze, observes our contributor Miriam al Jamil.

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