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Since the early 1970s, Dottie Attie has excerpted figurative details from historical paintings and reproduced them in fractured visual narratives that recontextualize familiar masterpieces. Based on works by well-known artists such as Courbet and Ingres, Attie’s multipanel paintings invite us to think critically about depictions of the body in the history of art. Pairing sensuously rendered figurative fragments with enigmatic narratives, Attie disrupts conventional depictions of the female body in order to critique the invisible authority of the historical source paintings. . . .
- Paige Turner, formerly Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art Text excerpted from A Capital Collection: Masterworks from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, which is available for purchase in the Corcoran Shop. :: Click here to purchase this catalog online
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