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1946–2023 South Africa

Shulamith Behr (1946 – 2023) was a South African art historian. She was a senior lecturer, and Honorary Research Fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art.

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It is clear that aspects of the performative are relevant to psychoanalytical theory in general and feminist art historical enquiry in particular.

Inevitably, the admission of women to the rank of exhibitors upsets the patriarchal hegemony of avant-garde creativity and introduces new relationships of power between people in the group.

This is not to say that fantasy is free of social relations and power, but she argues that its process “orchestrates and shatters relations of power.

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