popular culture

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Jan 26 09:40:35 PST 2003


Catherine Driscoll wrote:


> > Speaking of which, have you ever seen a Madonna nursing? It just
>> occurred to me, that I haven't. It is implicit in some compositions,
>> but I can think of one explicitly depicted.
>
>Sure. Yes. Major theme. You want names of painters or places of works?

I saw a BVM in the Tate about 20 years ago that had a stream of milk flowing from her breast shooting heavenward to form the Milky Way. Is that a topos or an individual moment of extravagant fantasy?

Doug



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