Torture of Women by Nancy Spero
by Erica Mena
This astonishing, terrifying work by the incredible feminist artist Nancy Spero is reproduced stunningly by Siglio Press. The 14 panels are reproduced in full, then showing the details in their full legibility. It’s hard to get a sense of scale from a book, but even so, this work seems massive. Not just in size but in scope. The collage is sparse, encasing the fragments of testimony and witnessing, and of Spero’s imagery in swathes of visual silence. The kind of […]
Categories: Art, Reading Journal • Tags: collage, feminist art, luisa valenzuela, nancy spero, political art, symmetries, torture of women