Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty

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<p><strong>Minter¿s art skews glamour with consumerist critique</strong></p>Marilyn Minter is famed for her glossy, hyper-realistic paintings, photographs and video works¿seductive images that borrow the language of fashion and advertising photography, exploring the boundaries of desire, sensuality and body anxiety in the age of consumption. Close-up imagery of mouths, feet, splashes and puddles, rendered in high-gloss enamel on sheets of metal, subversively questions the pathology of glamour. Produced in conjunction with the first major museum retrospective on her work, <I>Pretty/Dirty</I> examines every period of the artist''s 40-year career, from her beginnings with the controversial porn paintings, initially rejected by the critical establishment, to her later large-scale photorealistic works. Essays from the exhibition''s curators examine the trajectory of Minter''s development and her engagement with debates over the representation of the female body. Texts from musicians, artist