Facundity
Heels and Flats
"Runs" (ca 2006) is the contemporary color photograph by Marilyn Minter shown here while being considered by patrons of the San Antonio Museum of Art, Downtown San Antonio, Texas.
The large artwork presents a detail view of a woman whose lower legs have been bespattered with mud while wearing a pair of bejeweled, stiletto heels [Not a stretch of the imagination that it's a woman waiting for a taxi on a NYC sidewalk]. The photograph is an example of Minter's consideration of the complex view of femininity: glamorous and filthy; attractive and repulsive.
By contrast, the female museum guest who contemplates in front of the photograph is wearing a pair of patterned flat, lace-up shoes: a more practical take on feminism and self-expression.
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Photography was permitted throughout the museum galleries.
Heels and Flats
"Runs" (ca 2006) is the contemporary color photograph by Marilyn Minter shown here while being considered by patrons of the San Antonio Museum of Art, Downtown San Antonio, Texas.
The large artwork presents a detail view of a woman whose lower legs have been bespattered with mud while wearing a pair of bejeweled, stiletto heels [Not a stretch of the imagination that it's a woman waiting for a taxi on a NYC sidewalk]. The photograph is an example of Minter's consideration of the complex view of femininity: glamorous and filthy; attractive and repulsive.
By contrast, the female museum guest who contemplates in front of the photograph is wearing a pair of patterned flat, lace-up shoes: a more practical take on feminism and self-expression.
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Photography was permitted throughout the museum galleries.