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Subject(s)

• Haynes, Clarity 1971-—Themes, motives [Browse]
• Nude in art [Browse]
• Women in art [Browse]
• Childbirth in art [Browse]
• Torso (Anatomy)—Art [Browse]
• Altars—Art [Browse]
• Body image in art [Browse]

Editor

• Tischer, Benjamin [Browse]

Contributor

• DeVun, Leah [Browse]
• Dodge, Harry [Browse]

Interviewee

• Vaccaro, Jeanne [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Illustrated works [Browse]

Summary note

"Bare torsos, totemic altars, evocations of childbirth and gender fluidity form the basis for Haynes' visceral, carnal oil paintings. Willem de Kooning once stated that flesh was the reason oil paint was invented. To artist Clarity Haynes (born 1971), the correlation between flesh and paint is alchemical. Portals is the first survey celebrating her paintings. The book explores her approach to nontraditional portraiture informed by feminism and gender interrogation, starting with her seminal The Breast/Chest Portrait Project, ongoing for the past 25 years; her series of trompe l'oeil Altars; and her new Crowning series. With her depictions of blood, Haynes revels in the abject and transcendent, in defiance of the taboo subject of childbirth in the history of art. Her queer activist point of view shifts the gaze to a decidedly visceral, sensual engagement with paint, challenging what bodies can be." -- Artbook.com.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Clarity Haynes: Altar-ing birth / Leah DeVun
• Pulling you in/pushing you out: notes on Clarity Haynes' crowning paintings / Harry Dodge
• Crownings
• Painting the archive: a conversation between Clarity Haynes and Jeanne Vaccaro
• Torsos and altars
• This body didn't just develop like a photograph / Clarity Haynes
• Curriculum vitae.

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Other title(s)

Portals

ISBN

9798218181932 (hardcover)

OCLC

1432189183

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