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- Title
ANATOMIJA „ŽENE BEZ GRUDI": OD AMAZONKE PREKO SVETE AGATE DO SUVREMENE ONKOLOGIJE - PRIMJER VIZUALNIH UMJETNICA: IVANA POPOVIĆ I TAJČI ČEKADA.
- Authors
Marjanić, Suzana
- Abstract
In this article I interpret contemporary artistic practices of female artists who thematise the anatomy of women's breasts, which I have tragically defined on this occasion by Nietzsche's reformulated syntagma "women (originally: people) sans breasts," thus referring to his definition of a "civilization of people sans breasts", whereby I follow the aforementioned socially-coded principle from the Greek myth of women warriors (the Amazons) who, according to the lore, removed their right breast so as to use the spear and arrow as efficiently as possible; furthermore, through the polymastic Artemis of Ephesus, the Christian martyr St. Agatha, and the re/construction of the mythic matrix of the epos of Miloš Obilić - which seeks to restructure the hero's surname Kobilović/Kobilić into Obilić i.e. "the abundant one" (the abundant mother/obilna majka/and her abundant milk/obilno mlijeko/; in the mytheme of the abundant mother, the mother of Miloš threw her right breast over her left shoulder, as noted by e.g. Natko Nodilo in his "mythic" interpretations) - to contemporary oncology. Within the framework of the aforementioned paradigm (timeline), I shall address in more detail the media appearances and works of the late multimedia artist Ivana Popović (1968- 2016) on the subject of her own body of a "woman sans breast" following breast cancer diagnosis, as well as the multimedia artist Tajči Čekada (action EkoEko - Human Milk, the Only Milk Inherent to Humans, 2017) who set women's breasts into context of their primordial sphere as a food source.
- Subjects
BREAST milk; NIETZSCHE, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900; CANCER diagnosis; BREAST; DEFINITIONS; ANATOMY; MYTH; MULTIMEDIA (Art); GREEK mythology
- Publication
Nasleđe, 2019, Issue 43, p87
- ISSN
1820-1768
- Publication type
Article