Reading Meret Oppenheim The iconic Surrealist sculptures produced by Meret Oppenheim in the 1930s have the unmistakable stamp of feminist imagination. Her (possibly) most famous work, the fur covered cup and saucer (Object, Déjeuner en Fourrure, 1936), positively resonates with gendered associations. Her intimate suggestivity references pleasure, consumption, mouth and private parts simultaneously. Others may read it differently, but my response has always been to see the transformation of the ordinary object—cup and saucer—into an extraordinary one as a eroticization of its identity. As in the case of any fully realized work of art, the piece never finishes for me, never exhausts its capacity to evoke a reading, again, of its combination of formal, material, conceptual, and aesthetic properties.
Bravo.
Would it help if the translation had the original language printed on facing page?