Paper - Angels: Self Portraits in a Gesture of Suffering and Transcendence - Bok av Sandy Bleifer - Häftad

The figure in flight conjures up a familiar female archetype – an angel - an arbiter between human suffering and transcendence. The use of the female figure – long a staple of Western artistic iconography – may be interpreted in a contemporary context of women’s issues or as a matriarchal figure embodying the world’s suffering. The “Shrine of the Angels” series utilizes color photo Xerox printouts of the source image for the Angels, several incorporating..