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Universitat de València
2014
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- FACING THE MIRROR. JO SPENCE AND HANNAH WILKE Jesús Martínez Oliva Comunicación Cancer Jo Spence phototherapy Hannah Wilke self portrait Cancer has long been a taboo, an illness surrounded by secrecy, socially silenced and consequently excluded from visual and artistic representation. This article aims to highlight the pioneering role played by two women artists: Hannah Wilke and Jo Spence. In the eighties Wilke and Spence broke away from the fear and shame of cancer to record the disease visually, making it part of their work experience, lived through in the fi rst person. These autopathographic portraits, encompassing different strategies that range from phototherapy to the task of deconstructing stereotypes and taboos or pursuing critical militancy, helped these authors to face this disease personally, and try to unravel the metaphors and stigmas surrounding it socially and culturally. 2014 artículo científico 2174-3487 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=511751359007 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=5117 Mètode Science Studies Journal application/pdf Universitat de València Mètode Science Studies Journal (España) Num.4