Fat Women, Surprise of the Wild: Reflection on the Western Female Body in Jenny Saville’s Paintings

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SU Dianna. Fat Women, Surprise of the Wild: Reflection on the Western Female Body in Jenny Saville’s Paintings[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2019, 2(4): 728-750.

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SU Dianna. Fat Women, Surprise of the Wild: Reflection on the Western Female Body in Jenny Saville’s Paintings[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2019, 2(4): 728-750.

SU Dianna. Fat Women, Surprise of the Wild: Reflection on the Western Female Body in Jenny Saville’s Paintings[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2019, 2(4): 728-750.

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SU Dianna. Fat Women, Surprise of the Wild: Reflection on the Western Female Body in Jenny Saville’s Paintings[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2019, 2(4): 728-750.

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Fat Women, Surprise of the Wild: Reflection on the Western Female Body in Jenny Saville’s Paintings

SU Dianna

Beijing Normal University

Received Date: 2019-04-11
Publish Date: 2021-03-09

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By using the method of iconography, visual culture, and feminist theory, this essay presents a case study of the bodies of“fat women” in Jenny Saville’s representative works, aiming to investigate the formulation and significance of Western female body image with the aesthetics of savage culture. The author proposes reflections on a series of questions: what impact do the diversified explorations and expressions of the female body by contemporary artists (such as Jenny Saville) have on our way of perceiving the world, on human activities of transforming social, cultural, and natural worlds, and also their own understandings of sexuality and identity?
- female body image,
- fat women,
- Jenny Saville,
- YBA,
- contemporary painting

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