...Deborah Willis; Carla Williams This essay surveys art, critical writings, and poetry on and around the subject of Sarah, or Saartjie, Baartman, a South African Khoi or San woman exhibited as the “Hottentot Venus” from 1810 to 1815 in Europe. The essay shares the authors’ research methods and ideas...

... bodies, Green turns the tables on specta- other figures invites viewers to physically and psy- tors and subjects them to treatment partially echo- chically identify with black subjects or assess their ing that endured by Baker and Baartman. In fact, own identification and expectation of them...

... effectively desexualized and normalized into the mainstream expectation of someone in her position. Lastly, Venus Baartman (2001) poses Rose as Eve...

... and Pathology displayed images of Saartije Baartman’s genitals, as they were studied and eventually dis- sected and exhibited by French scientists.1 Although he was accused...

... was missing sexual organ."14 In Lorna Simpson's hom• abundant and worn in elaborate designs, as part of age to Saartje Baartman, Unavailable For headdresses, clothing accessories, and body Comment, 1993, the ghost of the famed Hottentot adornments. Indeed it was this overstated opu...

... postapartheid play• Saartjie Baartman (aka the Hottentot Venus), who is hanged ground, the sense of personal freedom and authority that is now with a tie, rises to heaven, becomes a winged angel, then is trans• owned by the social and political body allows the artistic one...

...• to multiple readings.7 Musa's Venus de la Mer du gest a playful reconstruction of the images that Japon (carte) (Venus hottentote) (2002) presents create cultural identities. the figure and sexual organs of Saartjie Baartman A series of paintings on preprinted...

... figures, however, contrast with one of the most iconic images in the world, Jesus on the cross. Jesus s walk and the humiliating in- sults of the agitated crowd conjure another icon, that of black womanhood and, in particular, Saartje Baartman, whom curious crowds vilified when she was exposed in Europe...

... bringing to mind Saartjie Baartman, the barely indignity of exploitation. clad South African woman exhibited as “Hottentot The New York Times broke the story on Venus” until her death in 1815.8 Hornaday said he September 9, 1906, and over the next three weeks planned to keep...

..., including onto a large, painted, multicolored wooden screen, Mobutu, Sarah Baartman (the “Hottentot Venus which he crafted on site, in order to push the slave ships, money changers, and nongovernmental boundaries of painting and film. The result was an organizations. The juxtapositions suggest...

... 2004), p. 88. from across the continent as a whole, it would be ^ Cheryl Finley, "To Travel in Her Shoes," in They Called Her fascinating in future to explore the beginnings of Hottentot: The Art, Science and Fiction of Sarah Baartman, ed...

... in to a near-complete absence categories — categories imposed by a social order of discussion about Africa and such African bodies that has little use for thinking or acting outside the as Saartje Baartman’s (only one critic caught on). To box. put it simply, because Laâbisi is not black, it did...