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Catttt Posted 6 years ago
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Tropes pictured so cogently

Does "tropes pictured so cogently in Manet’s Olympia, 1863" in the last line of the following text mean "a good example of which is Manet’s Olympia, 1863"?

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If the black male body was feminised by its alignment with nature, then the representation of the black female in relation to desire and visual pleasure was seen as even more problematic given that her positioning in the bodily schema of the mirror-stage rendered her an invisible counterfoil against which the white female body could be objectified as idealised, tropes pictured so cogently in Manet’s Olympia, 1863 (Art and Psychoanalysis by Maria Walsh).

  
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