Caroline Vout on Classical Bodies in Art

The Great Women Artists

Katy Hessel

Arts

4.8 • 877 Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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I am so excited to say that my guest on the GWA Podcast is the world-renowned Classics scholar and professor at the University of Cambridge, Caroline Vout! Today we are discussing all sorts of figures in Classics, from Venus to Hermaphroditus. Born in Durham, Vout studied for a BA at Newnham College Cambridge, completed her MA at the Courtauld, and PhD back in Cambridge, where she spent a very formative year as a Rome Scholar at the British School at Rome. Since 2006, she has been based in Cambridge where she is a Fellow at Christ’s College. The author of seven formative books that have expanded my mind on the Ancient world, our thinking around gendered bodies, imperfect bodies, and the perception of women through these vessels, from Classical Art: A Life History from Antiquity to the Present to the more recently published “Exposed: The Greek and Roman Body”, Vout has been instrumental in pushing forwarding Classical research. Next year, she will curate a major exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum But the reason why we are speaking with Carrie Vout today is because of how her research challenges the ideal forms of the Greek and Roman body. Whereas a body cast in marble or bronze sitting atop a pedestal might be the template that we have – and one that European painters have so often perpetuated through idealised portrayals of men and women – Vout argues this is a lie, and that ancient bodies were in fact anxious, ailing, imperfect, diverse, and in turn, much more like us than we might at first glean. CARRIE'S BOOKS: https://www.waterstones.com/book/exposed/caroline-vout/9781788162906 https://www.waterstones.com/book/classical-art/caroline-vout/9780691177038 https://www.waterstones.com/book/sex-on-show/caroline-vout/9780714122786 -- THIS EPISODE IS GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY THE LEVETT COLLECTION: https://www.instagram.com/famm.mougins // https://www.merrellpublishers.com/9781858947037 ENJOY!!! Follow us: Katy Hessel: @thegreatwomenartists / @katy.hessel Sound editing by Nada Smiljanic Music by Ben Wetherfield https://www.thegreatwomenartists.com/

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome back to series 10 of the Great Women Artists podcast.
0:05.9	I am so excited to say that this series is supported by the Levitt Collection,
0:10.6	a vast and varied art collection of which a major portion is dedicated to fantastic works by women artists.
0:17.4	The Levitt Collection's support for women in the arts is such that preparations are in full swing for the creation of the new museum, FAM, FAMM, which will be opening in June 24 in Mujan in the south of France.
0:31.6	It will be the first major museum in mainland Europe dedicated to solely female artists and will exhibit a myriad of
0:39.5	artworks all from the collection. Impressionist, surrealist, modern and contemporary art created by women
0:45.8	from around the world will take pride of place in the Levitt's New Museum, female artists of the
0:50.8	Mujan Museum. But in the meantime, stay tuned by following at fam.m.m
0:56.1	and don't miss the beautiful book, Abstract Expressionists, The Women, published by Morel,
1:01.4	which presents a selection of works from the collection, alongside richly illustrated essays by
1:06.2	scholars LNG Landau and Joan M. Marta, all available now. I hope you enjoy this episode.
1:17.0	Hello everyone and welcome to The Great Women Artist podcast with me, Katie Hessel.
1:25.2	Some of you might know me from The Great Women Artists. An Instagram account,
1:28.6	I set up in October 2015, which celebrates female artists on a daily basis, ranging from
1:34.3	young graduates to old masters. Well, in a similar fashion to the Instagram, this podcast is
1:40.5	all about celebrating female artists from a variety of backgrounds and histories.
1:45.4	And I am so excited to be interviewing artists on their career or artists, writers, curators,
1:50.9	or general art lovers on the women artist who means most of them.
1:54.9	What I want this podcast to do is celebrate female artists in all different capacities,
1:59.5	so you, the listener, can gain a look
2:02.1	into the greatest female artists working now or from art history.
2:09.0	I am so excited to say that my guest on the Great Women Artists podcast is the world-renowned
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