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Are_we_sure ago

You can remove the part about the Arch of Hysteria having anything to do with Jeffrey Dahmer.

That is conclusively debunked. We know the inspiration for that sculpture and we know when she first came up with the idea.

Her inspiration was the Charcot, a French Neurologist from the 1800s. He studied hysteria and had patients who would arch themselves into what the called the arc de cercle. https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/af/da/48/afda484112e16bcd3315ead9da6a2e88.jpg

She started working on this idea in the late 80's. This is a sketch of the first in the series. The sketch was made in 1989 https://www.moma.org/collection_lb/browse_results.php?object_id=70922

Millennial_Falcon ago

I will look into this.

JrSlimss ago

It actually isn't debunked. There's enough evidence to leave it up. http://pizzagate.wiki/Louise_Bourgeois#Arch_of_Hysteria

Also, Are_we_sure/Arewesure is always shilling.

Are_we_sure ago

There's fuck-all evidence. There's a shit ton of conjecture. All it false.

The statue Podesta owns is one many Arches she did. She conceived of an Arched Figure as early as 1989 as I just documented. It was not in response to Jeffrey Dahmer, who no one knew about in 1989, it was a response to the work of Jean-Martin Charcot, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Martin_Charcot He was "the founder of modern neurology." who studied hysterics and found they sometimes contorted themselves in this way. https://ratandravendotnet.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/1843-delahaye-et-lecrosnier.jpg

Of particular note, a person in an Arch of Hysteria is alive. They are not a cadaver. Again this link conclusively debunks the idea that Bourgeois's sculptuer is related to Jeffrey Dahmer. It shows the date as 1989 and contains the following text. https://www.moma.org/collection_lb/browse_results.php?object_id=70922

Background:The source of Bourgeois's imagery is an illustration from an early twentieth-century textbook on psychological illnesses, which she photocopied, traced, and then scratched on the plate. She rejected it because it was not her own image and she was not satisfied with it. She would later create Arched Figure, seen below in Related Works in the Catalogue, on the same theme. Artist’s Remarks:"This is a feminist statement. It is a document which proves the prejudice of Charcot." (Jean-Martin Charcot [1825-1893], considered the father of modern neurology, was also the teacher of Sigmund Freud.) "For Charcot," Bourgeois said, "the arched body... the hysterical woman... was a subject of entertainment... she was made to be ridiculous and laughable. And hysterical people were always thought to be women. But that is a superstition! This document shows that men were also hysterical. I am trying to prove a point here. Charcot made fun of women... like my father made fun of me." (Quote cited in Wye, Deborah and Carol Smith. “The Prints of Louise Bourgeois.” New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1994, p. 244.)

Here's a few of her works in the series. The first image is one she conceived in 1989. This figure is a female-another difference with Dahmer. http://www.moma.org/collection_images/resized/674/w500h420/CRI_311674.jpg

http://www.moma.org/collection_images/resized/689/w500h420/CRI_329689.jpg http://www.moma.org/collection_images/resized/692/w500h420/CRI_329692.jpg https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/0d/6b/ef/0d6bef7d6e9a15b8fb4dceb1c2259f69.jpg https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/6d/02/10/6d02104bee777b8c05e03311a5ef7ad4.jpg https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/88/d8/94/88d8949312f03e0cad300f2ba950cb21.jpg https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/2d/54/32/2d5432c322bd53d6854c3cfff911fb0d.jpg http://www.tate.org.uk/art/images/work/AL/AL00229_8.jpg https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/4b/46/1e/4b461ee06790473cdee45c3e27095964.jpg

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