No title. From the portfolio After Edgar Degas

Renowned for taking "photographs of photographs" of the work of canonical artists, Sherrie Levine uses appropriation to challenge authorship and authenticity. Her work emerged as part of the so-called Pictures Generation, a group of artists known for using citation and appropriation as strategies to critique patriarchal structures in history, media, and art institutions. Here, Levine has made copies of Edgar Degas’s famous lithographs of washer women and dancers in late 19^th-century Paris. By removing Degas as the main author, she emphasises the labour and presence of the women in the images, moving away from the male gaze of the French painter and suggesting a distinct feminist lens through which we, as viewers, can observe these bodies.