"To be bestial is good. It's physical. Eating, snarling, all activities to do with sensation are positive. (...) To picture a woman as a dog is believable." Paula Rego on la serie de mujeres-perro.
"Indeed, animals dominate many of the notions of feminine evil that were common in late 19th- and turn-of-the-century popular art." Dijkstra.
"(it fits in the categories) outlined in Dijkstra's study: namely, that women were denigrated in fin de siecle culture by being compared to animals and children, or by being associated with excessive sexual appetite and general moral degeneracy" 'Pseudo-science and mythic misogyny: Oskar Kokoschka's 'Murderer, Hope of Women.'. Claude Cernuschi
Obsesiones viejas, nuevos descubrimientos, todo encaja. Maravilloso Dijsktra, no puedo creer que no quedáramos antes. ¡Tenemos tantas cosas en común!
