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Sex, Satire, and Censorhip: Lygia Pape’s Eat Me: Gluttony or Lust? (1975/1976)
| dc.contributor.author | Sneed, Gillian | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-12-16T11:21:06Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-12-16T11:21:06Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This essay analyses two works by the Brazilian artist Lygia Pape (1927–2004): a short f ilm titled Eat Me: a Gula ou a Luxúria? (Eat Me: Gluttony or Lust?, 1975) and a related installation (1976). Both reference advertising and contain erotic images of women. I discuss these works in relation to the Brazilian television and film industries of the 1960s–1980s, including Brazilian pornography and erotica, deemed a threat to traditional values by the country’s military dictatorship (1964–1985), despite its inconsistent approach to censoring them. I suggest that Pape appropriates and satirizes—or “cannibalizes”—ads and pornography as to resist the dictatorship’s conservative sex and gender ideologies. Though Pape did not consider herself a feminist, I argue that her Eat Me film and installation present a feminist critique of the heteronormative and patriarchal discourses undergirding the dictatorship and the Brazilian mass media’s commodification of women and sex, especially in advertising and pornochanchadas (sex comedies). | pt_PT |
| dc.description.version | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.34619/3eht-qtxz | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2182-3294 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10362/191846 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | pt_PT |
| dc.peerreviewed | yes | pt_PT |
| dc.publisher | IHA / NOVA FCSH | pt_PT |
| dc.relation.publisherversion | https://institutodehistoriadaarte.com/publications/rha/revista-de-historia-da-arte-n-o-15-2020/ | pt_PT |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | pt_PT |
| dc.title | Sex, Satire, and Censorhip: Lygia Pape’s Eat Me: Gluttony or Lust? (1975/1976) | pt_PT |
| dc.type | journal article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| oaire.citation.conferencePlace | Lisboa | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.endPage | 85 | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.issue | 15 | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.startPage | 64 | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.title | Revista de História da Arte | pt_PT |
| person.familyName | Sneed | |
| person.givenName | Gillian | |
| person.identifier.orcid | 0000-0002-5255-3390 | |
| rcaap.rights | openAccess | pt_PT |
| rcaap.type | article | pt_PT |
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