Margot Irvine – The Conversation

Les cas de la sculptrice Camille Claudel (1864-1943) et de Britney Spears révèlent des situations où des femmes talentueuses ont été déclarées mentalement inaptes après des interventions familiales. (Wikimedia Commons/CP PICTURE ARCHIVE/Paul Chiasson)

August 13, 2021

Contrôle et mise sous tutelle : Britney Spears et Camille Claudel, même combat ?

Margot Irvine, University of Guelph

Il y a cent ans, des médecins ont estimé que la sculptrice Camille Claudel pouvait être libérée de l’asile, mais sa famille a refusé. Son histoire rappelle celle, contemporaine, de Britney Spears.

In the cases of both sculptor Camille Claudel (1864-1943) and Britney Spears, we see situations where talented women were declared mentally unfit after family interventions. (Wikimedia Commons/CP PICTURE ARCHIVE/Paul Chiasson)

August 3, 2021

Britney Spears’s conservatorship alludes to an older story of controlling women artists

Margot Irvine, University of Guelph

Family members seeking to control women artists isn’t new. In the 1920s, doctors thought sculptor Camille Claudel could be released from the care of an asylum, but her family refused.

Filmmaker Agnes Varda holds the Honorary Palme d'Or award at the 68th international film festival, Cannes, France. Varda, a central figure of the French New Wave who later won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, has died. She was 90. AP/Thibault Camus

April 16, 2019

Agnès Varda, a pioneering artist who saw the extraordinary in the ordinary

Margot Irvine, University of Guelph

Beloved film director Agnès Varda died at age 90, on March 29th. She was a pioneer of French New Wave cinema and admired for her ability to understand time and see beauty outside of mechanical norms.

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