Death Becomes Her: Rejecting the Muse and Reclaiming the Female Body in Leonor Fini’s Skeleton Women
Date of Award
Summer 8-4-2023
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Art & Art History
First Advisor
Lynda Klich
Second Advisor
Susanna Cole
Academic Program Adviser
Lynda Klich
Abstract
This thesis is organized through the varied ways Fini incorporated death imagery, like the skeleton, into her art. I trace how she changed her interpretations of death from being a symbol in earlier works to then rendering death as the subject itself and concluding with depicting herself as death.
Recommended Citation
Singer-Baefsky, Janna, "Death Becomes Her: Rejecting the Muse and Reclaiming the Female Body in Leonor Fini’s Skeleton Women" (2023). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_sas_etds/1079
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