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Re: Q: Images of saints Anne and Mary: Thank you
Hilary Robinson
I'd like to thank all those who responded to my query, both on list and privately. I'm really touched by all your interest! I have come into this subject sideways (!), haveing read passages by the French philosopher Luce Irigaray on the significance of imaging the mother-daughter couple for establishing femal genealogies - an in particular her encounter with a C15th sculpture of Anne & Mary in the museo on Torcello, Venezia. I have done a little work on this in the context of contemporary Irish artists negotiations of the very particular imagery of mothering encountered in Ireland ('Disruptive women artists: an Irigarayan reading of Irish visual culture', Irish Studies Review, v.8, n.1, pp. 57-72). I am presently revising this work for a book on the implications of Irigaray's work for
contemporary art, and wished to explore further the Anne & Mary images as a model of modes of representation. Hence my interest in knowing that such imagery was very popular at a certain time, and if this reflected the standing of women's genealogy at that time. Also, I'm interested to know of the images of Anne actually teaching Mary.
So I'm trying to negotiate that line between being faithful to the original impulses behind these images, and exploring the 'use' and meaning they might have today, to 21st century eyes.
Many thanks again for your help, Hilary
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Dr. Hilary Robinson School of Art and Design University of Ulster at Belfast York Street
Belfast BT15 1ED Northern Ireland UK
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