Smoke and Mirrors: Feminism, Figurality, and “The Vine-Leaf”

Oct. 1, 2003

If one wishes to deceive a man, what one presents to him is the painting of a veil, that is to say, something that incites him to ask what is behind it. –Jacques Lacan, “What Is a Picture?” Ignorance, far more than knowledge, is what can never be taken for...