lizzyhajos

Really enjoyable and informative article – am definitely inspired to further explore the ghostly enigmas of her work – thanks!

Really glad to be introduced to the work of Miru Kim and Ruth Bernhard! Though I think this article should have emphasized more that ‘female bodies throughout art history have been objects of desirable, self-gratifying pleasure’ because they have been framed as such by male artists for a male audience not because they simply ‘are’. And it should go without saying that ‘The female body has the ability to transcend beyond sexual representation’. Nevertheless, that is why bringing these ‘non-sexualised’ works into discussion is so important. Miru Kim’s ‘Michigan Central Station’ is especially effective in the way in which the figure’s nakedness adds to the effect of the image, whilst taking up very little space: neither the woman nor the nakedness need to dominant or sexualised to have a significance or an artistic impact. Very good image and topic choice!

The emulative patterns existent in Titus are definitely characteristic of revenge situations in general and are also significant in the way in which the nature of revenge causes the person seeking the revenge to be debased and lowered to the level of the person they’re seeking revenge against. Though I wouldn’t say that ’emulation is the cause of revenge’. Revenge rather seems to result from a desire, however misguided, to pursue justice on your own terms, and outside the framework of civil justice etc.; on terms which cannot operate on the basis of absolute or objective terms and which are thus not only ethically problematic but also, as you point out, cannot have an end (apart from complete destruction), as the actions aren’t regulated by an external body.