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Ways of Seeing Art

rtising strategy in the black and white photographic works with the red banners. In the piece featuring the text "Your body is a battleground," the words are transposed over a black-and-white photograph of the face of a white woman wearing heavy makeup. The picture is split down the middle and the right side of the piece is a negative image. The viewer automatically begins to relate the text to the image, perhaps even before wondering why the image is split. The immediate question is, in what way is a woman's body a battleground? It could refer to battles over abortion, to commercial firms that wish to sell her more makeup, to

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