Severed Breasts, Lee Miller, and Surrealist Photography
Season 1, Episode 1, Dec 01, 2021, 09:00 AM
Emma and Christy look at Lee Miller’s photographs Untitled (Severed Breast from Radical Surgery in a Place Setting I and II (c. 1929) and talk about double mastectomies, fragmented bodies, feminist (?) art, Georges Bataille… and recipes for ‘cauliflower breasts’.
Emma and Christy look at Lee Miller’s photographs Untitled (Severed Breast from Radical Surgery in a Place Setting I) and (II) (c. 1929) and talk about double mastectomies, fragmented bodies, feminist(?) art, Georges Bataille… and recipes for ‘cauliflower breasts’.
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE IMAGES WE DISCUSS, as well as complete show notes, references, and suggestions for further reading.
IMAGES DISCUSSED:
Lee Miller, Untitled (Severed Breast from Radical Surgery in a Place Setting I) (c. 1929)
Lee Miller, Untitled (Severed Breast from Radical Surgery in a Place Setting II) (c. 1929)
Man Ray, Anatomies (1929)
Man Ray, Indestructible Object or Object to Be Destroyed (1923, remade 1933, editioned replica 1965)
Man Ray, Observatory Time: The Lovers (1932)
Roland Penrose, Lee Miller with Body Cast, known as ‘Bewitches Witch’ (1942)
Man Ray, Minotaur (1933)
Man Ray, The Return to Reason(1923)
Photograph by Edward Steichen, Lee Miller in a Kotex ad (1928)
Jo Spence, Property of Jo Spence? (1982)
CREDITS:
‘Drawing Blood’ was made possible with funding from the Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network.
Follow our Twitter @drawingblood_
Audio postproduction by Sias Merkling
‘Drawing Blood’ cover art © Emma Merkling
All audio and content © Emma Merkling and Christy Slobogin
Intro music: ‘There Will Be Blood’ by Kim Petras, © BunHead Records 2019. We're still trying to get hold of permissions for this song – Kim Petras text us back!!
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE IMAGES WE DISCUSS, as well as complete show notes, references, and suggestions for further reading.
IMAGES DISCUSSED:
Lee Miller, Untitled (Severed Breast from Radical Surgery in a Place Setting I) (c. 1929)
Lee Miller, Untitled (Severed Breast from Radical Surgery in a Place Setting II) (c. 1929)
Man Ray, Anatomies (1929)
Man Ray, Indestructible Object or Object to Be Destroyed (1923, remade 1933, editioned replica 1965)
Man Ray, Observatory Time: The Lovers (1932)
Roland Penrose, Lee Miller with Body Cast, known as ‘Bewitches Witch’ (1942)
Man Ray, Minotaur (1933)
Man Ray, The Return to Reason(1923)
Photograph by Edward Steichen, Lee Miller in a Kotex ad (1928)
Jo Spence, Property of Jo Spence? (1982)
CREDITS:
‘Drawing Blood’ was made possible with funding from the Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network.
Follow our Twitter @drawingblood_
Audio postproduction by Sias Merkling
‘Drawing Blood’ cover art © Emma Merkling
All audio and content © Emma Merkling and Christy Slobogin
Intro music: ‘There Will Be Blood’ by Kim Petras, © BunHead Records 2019. We're still trying to get hold of permissions for this song – Kim Petras text us back!!