Robert Wringham s Rub-A-Dub Dub slips neck-deep into the wet hot mess of middle-age angst. From the comfort of his bath, so to speak, he talks about it.
IF SOCIAL ART HISTORY entails studying an artwork’s reception, few scholars have been so committed to this approach as Hannah Gadsby. Already in secondary school, at Launceston College near Tasmania’s northern coast, they developed a novel mode of discourse analysis. For an assignment, the future comedian was asked to “write about one piece of work.” They chose Pablo Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, “the painting that adorned the cover of my book about Cubism,” as they explain in their 2022 memoir, Ten Steps to Nanette. “I decided to co-opt the way that other people felt about Picasso’s ‘
Throughout art history, the Biblical story of a bathing woman was painted by men in order to titillate – but at 17, Gentileschi showed the way women are still objectified and shamed to this day