
The Kiss of the Sphinx
The sphinx in Stock’s painting serves as a physical representation of the relationship between desire and violence.
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The sphinx in Stock’s painting serves as a physical representation of the relationship between desire and violence.
Read moreMillais portrays the world as is often is in reality: a tragic playground where death and beauty are too often intertwined.
Read moreThus Carson frames this woman around concepts of coolness and distance to preserve her inner truth.
Read moreThis woman has survived the fight perhaps not only in spite of her femininity, but because of it.
Read moreThe pain in her history, it does not encroach upon her stillness or her quiet power.
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