Mirror Mirror: self portraits by women artists
Liz Rideal with essays by Whitne Chadwick and Frances Borzello
Pg 8 - Like Narcissus before (Nina Hamnett), Hamnett turned to the reflected image for access to an "other," a self defined in and through representation.
She took part ni the first all female self portrait exhibition in the Royal Albert Hall .
In second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir structured secual difference and self identification around the reflected image. "Woman/ sees herself in a glass".
Pg 17 "under this mask, another mask. I will never be finished carrying all these faces." - Claude Cahun, Aves non Avenus, 1930)
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