The works of American photographer, performance and video artist, and sculptor Hannah Wilke, born Arlene Hannah Butler in New York, are known for explorations of sexuality, gender, and feminism through forms that are either suggestive of the female body or that explicitly depict it. Considered the first feminist artist to use vaginal imagery in her work, Wilke began in the 1970s to use her own body in performances documented by photographs and video that she dubbed “performalist self-portraits.” IntraVenus, a group of photographs documenting her experience with cancer, was exhibited posthumously at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts in 1994.
In the interwar period, Liebermann’s portraits were highly sought after by the wealthy. He also produced many self-portraits. This one, painted when he was in his seventies, portrays him as a self…
Nimrod provoked controversy when it was first presented to the public. The biblical Nimrod was a hunter, but he was also associated with rebellion, especially in talmudic literature, and he appears…
Janco and the subject of this portrait, poet Tristan Tzara (1896–1963), played leading roles in creating the Dada movement in Zurich, Switzerland, during World War I. Janco made several masks that…