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The Great Within
http://www.thegreatwithin.org
The Great Within explores all types of visual representation: art, film, photography, the products of mass culture and examines them in terms of desire, nostalgia, gender and sexuality using critical theory such as the work of Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes etc.
- Added on: Jul 28th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Kelly T Keating
- Listed in: Arts Cultural
- Tags: art Photography Film desire Nostalgia mass culture
Recent Posts
On Collecting
Every passion borders on chaos, that of the collector on the chaos of memory- Walter Benjamin, Illuminations (Collecting) is a “strategy of desire” whose task is the ever-impossible effort to bridge the gap between expression and experience...
Tracey Emin: Handwork
The feminine occurs only within models and laws devised by male subjects. Which implies that there are not really two sexes, but only one. A single practice and representation of the sexual. With its history, its requirements, reverses, lacks, neg...
The Absent Body: Felix Gonzalez-Torres, AIDS, Homosexuality and Representation
This essay was first written in 1994. It examines the work Untitled, 1991, a black and white photograph of an empty bed with 2 pillows, a sheet and a top sheet by Felix Gonzalez-Torres. The photograph is a memorial to his lover, Ross who died of AID...
Questions and Answers: Brief Encounter, Noel Coward and the Homosexual Author
The Great Within reader Holly asks, “To what degree do you think Brief Encounter reflects Noel Coward's own romantic experiences as a closeted gay man?"Holly poses an intriguing question which had not occurred to me even though I have seen Brief En...
Questions and Answers: Let’s Paint the Town a Glorious Red
Postcard circa 1910In order to increase my blog traffic and foster a greater dialogue between myself and readers, I am introducing a (humble) question and answer feature for The Great Within. I have to thank Chad, author of the blog Dukakis Hugging ...
Queering the Image 5: Postcard of a Sailor
Postcard circa 1940’s Like pears closely packed, the crowded crew mutually decay through close contact…Still more, from this same close confinement- so far as it affects the common sailors- arise other evils, so direful that they will h...
