The Slippage of Sex

Colour Me Dead - Chapter 17

How the body is gendered, differentiated, separated, socialised

(i) Division

1. 2. 3.

4. 5. 6.

(ii) Dissolution

7. 8.

9. 10. 11.

12.

(iii) Distillation

13. 14. 15.

16. 17. 18.

19. 20. 21.

22.

1. John Henry Fuseli’s The Ladies of Hastings (1798-1800)
2. Edgas Degas’ The Orchestra at the Opera House (c. 1870)
3. Auguste Rodin’s Man and his Thought (1899-1900)
4. Maximillian Lenz’s Summer Lust (1906)
5. Man Ray’s Erotique-voilée (1933-1934)
6. Maria Martins’ The Impossible III (1946)

7. Luis Ricardo Falero’s Witches Going To Their Sabbath (1878)
8. Jean Delville’s The School of Plato (1898)
9. Francis Picabia’s The Lovers (After The Rain) (1924-1925)
10. Rene Magritte’s The Lovers (1928)
11. Mimi Parent’s Masculine-Feminine (1959)
12. Pablo Picasso’s Nude Woman With Necklace (1969)

13. Martin van Maele’s Legend of the Sexes (1921)
14. George Quaintance’s Hercules (1957)
15. Pierre Molinier’s The Shaman (1960)
16. Louise Bourgeoise’s Janus Fleuri (1968)
17. Hans Bellmer’s Petit traite de morale I-X (1968)
18. Martha Rosler’s Benicillin or Medical Treatment (1967)
19. Lynda Benglis’ Art Forum advertisement (1974)
20. Tom of Finland’s Orgy (1978)
21. Robert Williams' A Star-Crossed Liason Punctuated By A Display Of Each Other’s Best Parts (1983-1986)
22. John Currin’s Jaunty and Mame (1997)