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Griselda Pollock on Alina Szapocznikow

The Great Women Artists

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Awareness of Dying

Ardisa Wright was a jewish woman who died of tuberculosis in the early 20th century. Her work is about life, death, desire, survival and all st yearnings. She transmits it and gives it a form by using her body as an object. The tumours are not her personal expression - she inhabits them for art's sake.

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