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Clare Johnson's Outputs (2)

Disembodied breasts and uncontrollable lactation: rethinking the Nursing Virgin motif through Janine Antoni’s to quench (2015) and Eve Dent & Zoë Gingell’s Breastcups (2009-11) (2025)
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Renaissance depictions of the Nursing Virgin are replete with incongruities and juxtapositions. Her rounded feeding breast is absurdly positioned and shaped in contrast to a flat space where her non-feeding breast should be; She has a dual identity a... Read More about Disembodied breasts and uncontrollable lactation: rethinking the Nursing Virgin motif through Janine Antoni’s to quench (2015) and Eve Dent & Zoë Gingell’s Breastcups (2009-11).