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...just about breasts. "Sharp Appetites" (or what people on campus have nicknamed the "Breast Exhibition") is about female sexuality as dictated by a male-oriented society. Lilla LoCurto and Bill Outcault, the artists of the exhibition at the Carpenter Center, explore the "many meanings in today's society" of the female body by focusing on the perceptions and treatment of women's breasts. Creating the ambience of a hospital with steel gurnies and fluid bags, the artists force the audience to view the display with the Foucaultian clinical gaze that has become the bedrock of post-modern criticism. "Sharp Appetites...
Women fondling themselves, or nudes smiling at the camera are all objectified and reduced to the simple expression of their bodies. The artists seal photos or reproductions in polyethlene bags and fill them with a clear gel, resembling the silicone used for breast augmentation. Others contain a milk-like fluid to conjure images of lactation. The juxtaposition of these different bags imply the early absorption and acceptance of male-dictated femininity by linking these sexual pictures with a universal image of childhood...
...long and distinguished career, he wrote six books and published almost 200 articles in medical journals. A Harvard news release described him as skilled teacher and an expert in experimental and surgical endocrinology, psychosomatic sickness, the treatment of burn victims and breast disease...
...Cope retired from active surgery and dedicated himself to improving the treatment of women's breast cancer...
...published a book on problems of the breast titled The Breast: Its Problems Benign and Malignant and How to Deal with Them...