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A Slight and Pleasing Dislocation
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A Slight and Pleasing Dislocation

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  • Shahzia Sikander
    Shahzia Sikander
    / Move to the United States

    …woman in such works as A Slight and Pleasing Dislocation (1993). “Her body is sexualized,” described Kishwar Rizvi, an art history professor at Yale University, “with an emphasis on her exaggerated breasts and rounded thighs, at the cost of all else. There is no head or arms, the latter reduced…

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    …woman in such works as A Slight and Pleasing Dislocation (1993). “Her body is sexualized,” described Kishwar Rizvi, an art history professor at Yale University, “with an emphasis on her exaggerated breasts and rounded thighs, at the cost of all else. There is no head or arms, the latter reduced…

    Read More