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Art-at-Lunch: Self-Portraiture and Self-Presentation by Contemporary Women Artists

Presented by Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)

October 27, 2010

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Join PAFA staff and students for this series of talks on American art and culture every Wednesday at noon. Enjoy discussions and lectures with scholars and artists covering a variety of topics related to PAFA's exhibitions, collections and areas of interest. Visitors are encouraged to bring a bagged lunch, though limited options will be available for sale outside the Auditorium doors. More so than their male peers, many female artists have deployed their own bodies as a form of artistic resource in the contemporary moment, whether simply to revisit the genre of self-portraiture or for more experimental purposes. Exploring their motives and tactics, Anna Chave, Professor of Art History at the CUNY Graduate Center, surveys a range of uses to which women like Alice Neel, Louise Bourgeois, Hannah Wilke, and Cindy Sherman have have put their bodies--not only in their own art, but also through their calculated performances before the lenses of professional photographers.