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The Death of General Wolfe

Benjamin West
The Death of General Wolfe (Detail), 1770
oil on canvas
152.6 x 214.5 cm
Transfer from the Canadian War Memorials, 1921 (Gift of the 2nd Duke of Westminster, England, 1918)
National Gallery of Canada (no. 8007)

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Imago (VII) Urverdrangung: refoulement "translatable" <>, May 1988

Mary Scott
Canadian, 1948
spray paint, silver and gold leaf, Rhoplex, and wax on silk
262 x 210 cm
Purchased 1990
National Gallery of Canada (no. 30488)

Supported by feminist and psychoanalytic writers from whose works she quotes, Mary Scott regards the representation of the female body as a problematic and extremely rich area of investigation. "Imago" is a concept used by psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan to refer to images formed in the psyche in early childhood that colour later life. Here Scott draws on Leonardo da Vinci's erroneous rendering of female genitalia, as a cultural "imago" deserving of transformation, presenting it as a gorgeously materialized abstract icon.

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“Titles as Signposting”. (0 min 40 sec)

“The Female: Knitting Her Back In”. (3 min 59 sec)

?Da Vinci: An Exciting Source?[da Vinci drawing or portrait of artist]. (0 min 46 sec)

“The Silk: Durable, Pliable, Yielding”. (1 min 24 sec)

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