Mothering Myths: An ABC of Art, Birth and Care contemporary Keetje Mans

Keetje Mans

others anonymous or who chose not to be named

This is Issue #6

researcher Fine Art 2002–2003

and the uselessness of Chirac

Mothering Myths: An ABC of Art, Birth and Care contemporary Keetje MansMotherhood is a theme that stands at the core of life, but has nevertheless been kept in the private sphere for a long time, haunted by clichs, stigmas and myths. Motherhood has always been seen as trivial, not as a subject for real art. At the same time, artists with a womb have faced the clich that they had to decide between making art or having a child, as both would take up all the mothers time and energy. Mothering Myths unravels these clichs,