Recentring Peripheral Queerness and Marginal Art in Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)

Humanities

Madeleine Pelling¹ 

[1] Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of York, York YO1 7EP, UK;

关键词: queer;    lesbian;    portraiture;    film;    marginal;    Diderot;   

DOI  :  10.3390/h10020073

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This essay examines the ways in which Céline Sciamma’s 2019 film Portrait de la Jeune Fille en Feu (Portrait of a Lady on Fire) looks to centralise onscreen homosexual experience through engagement with, and queering of, eighteenth-century art practices and the discourse surrounding them. From its reception of Ovid’s Metamorphoses to ideas espoused by the eighteenth-century art critic and philosopher Denis Diderot, Portrait looks to traditionally peripheral spaces, or edgelands, and the visual and embodied consequences of transcending them. Engaging closely with eighteenth-century processes of artmaking, the film transforms sketches on paper, paint applied to canvas and wood, miniatures held close to the body and erotica annotated in the margins into queer-coded sites used to reflect and document the developing relationship at its heart.

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