A Feminist History of Self-Portraiture
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15 min readFeb 28, 2021
Self-representation and subverting the gaze from 40,000 BCE to the present
If you have ever taken an art history class, you have probably come across a photograph of this object:
The Venus of Willendorf, named for a village in Austria near the site where it was found, is a limestone figurine, about 4 and a half inches tall. It was probably carved between 28,000 and 25,000…
