New artist to look at. Louise Bourgeois-Does her hanging headless art piece remind you of anything? Perhaps Tony P's headless sculpture?

New artist to look at. Louise Bourgeois-Does her hanging headless art piece remind you of anything? Perhaps Tony P's headless sculpture? ( twitter.com )

submitted 2017-05-28T18:10:31 by Littleredcorvette

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RweSure 2017-05-30T02:39:22

It's very unlikely he was aware of her. But it's possible, he may have been aware of the images she used as her inspiration which are well known to people who have looked at the history of psychiatry.

See my other comment in this thread.

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RweSure 2017-05-29T08:14:56

Louis Bourgeois did both pieces. She did many hanging pieces and multiple Arch of Hysteria pieces.

BTW, it's been proven (by me) that the Arch of Hysteria that Tony Podesta owns has nothing to do with Jeffrey Dahmer. She conceived of her first Arch of Hysteria in 1989 two years before Dahmer was arrested. That pose was inspired by a French neurologist who studied hysteria. here's her first sketch of the first Arch.
https://www.moma.org/collection_lb/browse_results.php?object_id=70922

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Littleredcorvette 2017-05-29T16:19:27

So Dahmer was imitating existing art with his victims headless pose. Interesting to further explore the chicken and egg situation of what comes first. Is it life imitating art, or art imitating life?

Interesting thoughts to ponder.

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RweSure 2017-05-30T02:36:57

If Dahmer was imitating anything, he might have been imitating the same old medical sketches she was using. I doubt he was aware of her art.

This image is from 1824 and depicts, Opisthotonus , a painful spasming of the muscles that victims of tetanus get
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CdWVo4fWAAEMM_4.jpg

Charcot the neurologist who Bourgeois has cited has her inspiration (and who was a teacher of Freud) talked about the arc de cercle that hysterical patients and epileptics sometimes suffered. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Krzysztof_Owczarek/publication/221926258/figure/fig6/AS:305190860279813@1449774579686/Fig-6-The-circular-arc-arc-de-cercle-Paul-Richer-Etudes-cliniques-sur.png