Why are seduction and an erotic charge associated with female hair? Why have societies, for centuries, scrutinized this part of the female body in particular? To say what?
Long hair associated with femininity
In Western art and culture, let’s take a few examples, deliberately making big differences. Take the ancient statues of noble women with heavy buns, take a detour, in the 15th century, with the birth of venus by Sandro Botticelli, goddess who hides the pubis with her long blond hair, until Disney taking over the character of Rapunzel and her meters of hair… The distinguished woman, the princess and the goddess all have long worked hair.
Unlike the figures of devalued women who have disheveled hair, like witches, such Madam Mim in Merlin The Enchanter (1963). Or women with shaved or very short hair, with the example of the scandal caused by the star Britney Spears in 2007, shaving her hair under the flashes of the paparazzi present…
What about women’s hair and society’s gaze? We talk about it in this episode of “Minute Papillon! ” with Zoe Forgetartist photographer, university lecturer Paris-8 Vincennes Saint-Denis, on photography and tattooing. For several years, the artificial hair has been at the heart of its creation and artistic reflection.
This episode follows our previous audio meeting about the representation of men’s hair, with Denis Bruna, curator of the exhibition “Hair and Hair” at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris.
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